奥吉（哈威·凯特尔 Harvey Keitel 饰）经营着一间雪茄店，年近四十的他依然过着形单影只的生活，只有常常光顾的潦倒作家本杰明（威廉·赫特 William Hurt 饰）能偶尔跟他聊聊天，解解闷。本杰明的生活同样不尽如人意。一场意外让本杰明遇见了名为拉希德（哈罗·佩里纽 Harold Perrineau Jr. 饰）的黑人男孩，一来二去之间，两人结下了深厚的友谊。　　某日，奥吉的前女友...

　　Jude, a college literature professor, falls for one of his students. She is more interested in the empirical experience of a relationship with a man whose life is ruled by the themes of the Russian ...