改编自库尔特·冯内古特的短篇小说。克里斯托弗·沃尔肯扮演一个害羞的五金店雇员。但每次当他一参加到当地的业余剧团表演时,他就完全融入到角色之中。苏珊·萨兰登扮演镇上新来的一个孤独的电话公司职员。在剧团在准备排演《欲望号街车》之时,她突发奇想并得到了饰演斯特拉的机会。很快,她便深深地爱上了这个男人,却对他的真实身份一无所知……From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Walken's Stanley when the theater group does A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.