An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.

A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a Mexican gang.

Alma自小便愛上了年輕的鄰居John。可是，他的身邊經常都有不同的女子。雖然他也喜歡她，但她堅信「愛情要靈慾合一，不可隨便」的信念，卻讓他們的關係一直保持著一個微妙的距離，總是介乎情人與朋友之間。直到這年的夏天，兩人終於有機會走到生命裡，最接近的一步……

1959 film by Sidney Lumet