电影通过三个普通人的视角来描写人性的困境，三位美国女子布伦达、艾仑和苏，结伴去海地旅行，观光圣地、风景优美的海地来寻找放松和激情。但是她们却发现了这个天堂岛屿背后的贫穷和危险，目睹了当地的贫困生活和严酷的政权，深深被震撼。
Plot Summary:Haiti, late 1970's. Sea, sex and sun for Ellen, Brenda and Sue, three North American ladies, on the wrong side of forty or fifty-odd, going through an enchanted interlude. Lonely, forsaken, neglected by men in their native countries, they can indulge here in carnal exultation without shame, thanks to handsome local young men they pay a few dollars. Ellen is a Boston French literature professor, Brenda, an unfulfilled wife from Savannah, Georgia and Sue, a sexually frustrated but good-natured Canadian factory worker. In this second garden of Eden they don't care too much about the neighboring poverty nor about Baby Doc's violent dictatorship. The trouble is that that two of the three women have sights on a single man, Legba. And Legba is beginning to be fed up with being a stud...
