潘妮·切納里（黛?蓮恩 Diane Lane 飾）原本是一個普通的家庭主婦比翼賽馬幾乎一竅不通的，卻在哥哥和丈夫的對聲中，從患病的父手中接管了位于弗吉亞州的養(yǎng)馬場。盡管時馬場已虧損多時，她依然不得不在居家科羅拉多州和馬場所的弗吉尼亞州之間疲奔命。為了覓得良馬潘妮特地找來告老還的馴馬師路西安(約翰·馬爾科維奇 John Malkovich 飾)，這個總是諸多抱怨的無淫頭卻對門漢潘妮另眼相待。潘一眼相中馬場里一匹出生打個滾居然就能立的栗色小馬駒，起為“秘書”。在路西的個性訓(xùn)練下，“秘”初出茅廬就一鳴驚。它快如閃電、奔躍飛，像個戰(zhàn)士一般，至?xí)榱速悎龅孛娴?動而興奮不已。終于了決一勝敗的時刻，秘書”會頂著所有壓，不辜負(fù)潘妮的期望成為25年來第一匹贏得美國三象蛇大賽的賽么??豆瓣"
The film has two or three stories (also a film in the film) and one of them focuses on the filmmaker Homer, who very much resembles Lav Diaz himself. The tortured filmmaker wrestles with completing his film. Despite pleas from those around him and from eager programmers, he continues to refuse to regard his film as finished. Alongside the story about a nun in the film on which Homer is working, there’s another story about the religious leader Father Turbico. Turbico leads a sect in the countryside that is primarily made up of young women. When one of the women wants to leave the sect, a dramatic situation ensues.
