艾琳是一个工人阶层出身的年轻母亲,虽然沉迷毒瘾,却极力在保持家庭的完整和养育两个孩子,将毒品的灰暗隐藏在自己生活的深处,苦苦挣扎于绝望之中。但无可否认的是,毒品正在愈加严重的蚕食着她的生活与生命,一切都开始四分五裂,正在此时,艾琳邂逅了鲍勃,鲍勃的出现将会影响她日后命运的轨迹。 在拮据的经济状况下,艾琳打算用给孩子们庆祝生日的钱去购买毒品,突然的良心发现让她决定自我悔过,艾琳主动去了... 幕后花絮 ·影片的绝大部分都是实景拍摄。 ·影片用索尼PD150 PAL摄影机拍摄而成。Winter in hard-scrabble upstate New York. Irene is working class, a mother of two boys, and a user of cocaine. She gets into trouble and checks into a rehab program where she meets Bob, a nurse. After she goes home to her husband and returns to her job as a grocery checker, she stays in touch with Bob and the intimations of an affair begin. By now, she's changed jobs, cleaning houses with her friend Lucy. The temptations of drugs are close at hand. Can she handle sobriety? What about Bob?