故事以市内发布供水限制、持续干旱的夏天展开。在市自来水局工作的岩切俊做的事是向拖欠费用的家庭或店铺里进行征收，还是停止自来水（停水执行）。俊作…

该片是一部渴求爱的故事片。影片讲述了一位生活在社会底层的单亲妈妈，为了抚养一个被遗弃的女孩，并让她能够在大学里有尊严地学习和生活，不惜一切代价、付出了一个母亲所有的爱，用平凡而感人的奉献，编织出了汗水和泪水筑就的爱巢……

A family of five, their two goats and donkey live in the middle of nowhere far from their village home. They earn meager living by producing & selling charcoal, made from the surrounding trees. The father and son are the only ones who ever return to their native village. The Mother & two daughters have not left this place since the day they abandoned home, 10 years ago. One day the father decides to provide running water for the family by illegally diverting water onto their land. The three women recoil from the idea but the teenage son obeys submissively anything to be allowed to continue attending school. The water surging through the pipe parallels the surging resentment the family feels towards the father. He brought them to this place against their will and they know the reason they left their home is also the reason they can never return, but the newly free-flowing water on their land re-awakens the instinctive desire for freedom they have been repressing all these years.

两名男孩同时对一名女孩心生爱慕，而当他们双双报名参与海湾战争的沙漠军刀行动后，事情开始变得棘手起来。

Two friends go on a hike to the desert. In the desolate wilderness something hidden comes out in their friendship. From then on, the only way they manage to communicate is sexually and violently. While one of them wants more than the other is able to give, he expresses his frustration by making sure they get lost and have no water - anything to escape from awaiting reality.

一个被扔到沙漠中的男人，快要渴死了，疯狂的找水喝。

1941年炎热的夏天，罗马尼亚第四集团军包围了海滨城市敖德萨，为敖德萨市提供水源的伊万诺夫卡德涅斯特供水站也被法西斯占领了。城市对市民饮用水进行配给发放，为使饮水得到缓解，只有想办法夺回供水站···

During a chaotic night at an underground Tehran rave disrupted by the morality police and war, a queer youth chooses to retreat into a bubble of romantic illusion with their partner just to survive the brutal reality outside.

20世纪30年代的印度，妇女没有人权和自由，她们不过是作为男性的附庸而存在。8岁的小女孩楚娅（Sarala 饰）早早变成了寡妇，她只能被迫剃掉头发，在一个专门为寡妇准备的庭院中度过余下的漫长人生。在这个院子里，生活着恍如天上仙子的年轻女性，也有黄土半埋的枯槁老人，更有处心积虑赚取不义之财的刁蛮之妇。 楚娅的明天会怎样？苦命女人的未来又将如何？ 本片为印度女导演迪帕•梅赫塔（Deepa Mehta）“要素三部曲”的第三部，分别荣获2006年曼谷国际电影节最佳影片；2006年加拿大吉尼金像奖最佳摄影、最佳配乐和最佳女主角（Seema Biswas）三项大奖；2006年美国国家影评奖最佳表现奖；2005年瓦雅多丽国际电影节青年评委会大奖；2006年温哥华影评人协会奖最佳女主角（Lisa Ray）和最佳导演奖；2007年青年艺术家奖最佳青年演员奖（Sarala）。