A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.
Direction
Treut's fearless gaze on female pleasure without male mediation.
Cinematography
Stark black-and-white that makes San Francisco feel like a fever dream.

Director
Monika Treut
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 1980s New German Queer Cinema movement, shot during the AIDS crisis when San Francisco's sexual underground was both vibrant and under threat.
Director Monika Treut cast actual performers from the city's queer scene; the BDSM club sequences were filmed at real locations with community participants.