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Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today. Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau). Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone. Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。本作は幼少期の記憶の断片が不意に脳裏をよぎり、しばしば意識が飛んでしまう記憶喪失癖に悩む女子高生・鹿角華蓮（かづのかれん）を主人公とするミステリー。韓国への修学旅行のためパスポート申請用の戸籍抄本を手にした華蓮は、4歳のときに亡くなった由（ゆかり）という姉がいたこと、自身は“松本”という家から今の両親に引き取られてきたことを知る。本当の親の居場所や、自分が養子に出された理由を知りたい華蓮は嘘をついて修学旅行をキャンセルし、出生地の福岡へと旅立つ。。
