39 people have agreed to participate in a self-experiment, without knowing exactly what to expect. In the anti-racism training, the participants are divided on the basis of their eye color in two groups. The blue-eyed will be humiliated, while the brown-eyed will learn how strong the feeling of having power can be and how much it unsettled.
Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), una joven de aspecto masculino, está enamorada de su mejor amigo, Keith (Eric Stoltz), pero a él sólo le interesa Amanda (Lea Thompson), la novia del pijo Hardy (Craig Sheffer) y la chica más popular del instituto.
A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her.
Elvis -en la que sería su última película- interpreta a John Carpenter, un doctor en medicina del centro de la ciudad que se enamora de una trabajadora social (Mary Tyler Moore).