简介
一场生日派对变成一起惨剧，此后掀起的风波击垮了这个关系紧密的富有社区，让家庭、友谊和人心都变得支离破碎。。在远离尘世的海上，有一座美丽奇异的小岛。这座岛上，没有正义邪恶的划分，没有惊心动魄的大战。岛上住着的，是一群时而互帮互助，时而又打打闹闹的市井小民，但是这里的每一个人都有一段传奇的过去。这里便是二次元界的桃花源，美影大家庭居住的地方。。1991年法国杜维尔电影节观众奖
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高中辍学生玛利亚告诉家人自己怀孕后，父亲倒毙地上，母亲把她踢出家门，男朋友弃她而去。于是她孤零零一个人无家可归。此时她遇上马修。他是个修理电子器械很有天分的高中毕业生，但他有个原则：质量至上，这使得他每份工作都做不长久。当玛利亚接受了马修的帮助，他们便展开一段令彼此发生转变的关系……
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.。