Plot Summary:Twenty-one year old Sammy Smalls has self-esteem issues. She hides behind her frumpy clothes and the slight limp she sustained from a childhood illness. She works in a dead end job as an undercover shoplifter detector at a Big Apple Food Town, her boss Dirk who has his own brand of vigilante justice for the shoplifters. And she considers her parents, although loving in their own unique way, not good role models for her. She doesn't like people touching her in an emotional manner, the ticklish feeling she gets from such being yet another thing behind which she hides. As a result, she is sexually inexperienced. However, she does have a crush on Eugene Zaslavsky, a busker musician who performs outside her supermarket. Each considers the other a friend, but their attempt to take the friendship into a sexual realm results in utter disaster. Although they vow to remain friends, Eugene won't sleep with her again due to her sexual inexperience. So Sammy goes on an expedition for advice and sexual experience from whomever and where ever she can find it, except from Eugene. Eugene, not fully realizing it, also has self-image issues with which he must comes to terms before he can be a true friend and possibly more to Sammy.
本片是华裔女导演李素英(爸爸大陆人,妈妈香港人,出生于温哥华)继2008年《多伦多故事》后执导的第二部长片,入围2010年多伦多国际电影节非竞赛单元。 影片简介: 21岁的塞米是个自尊心很强的女生,小时候得过的一场病让她身材瘦小,于是她总穿着宽大的衣服.她披着雨衣在一家超市当卧底特工,专抓窃贼.而她老板自有一套对付贼的办法.可她却于心不忍.她还有个怕痒的毛病,在和男朋友尤金睡觉的那晚露了出来,被误为不喜欢他,性冷淡.而跟她分手.于是她不断学习*爱知识,最后他们是否能重归于好呢?