Arquivo

Selma is a Czech immigrant, an unmarried mother who works in a textile mill in the rural north of the United States. She lives in a caravan with her son Gene, aged 12. Her only solace is her passion for music and for the items of song and dance in Hollywood musicals. And so she dribbles reality, as she puts together a mix of these musicals and her own hard, tragic life. In this way, she also hides a sad secret from all: day after day, she is losing her vision. She is able to cope with her blindness, but can not bear the thought of a similar fate for her son Gene who is doomed, genetically, to have trouble with his vision. She struggles on to find enough money to pay for surgery for her boy. When a desperate neighbor acuses her, falsely, of making off with his savings, the drama which is her life moves to a tragic close in this wondrous journey of image and sound. Icelandic singer Bjork, according to her, in a "first and last performance", also wrote the sound track.