This is the first film in the Stuttgart Nights Festival.
It takes place in an unnamed town in New Mexico, close to the Mexican border.
Jackie is hitchhiking from Oklahoma to Las Vegas to take part in a body
building contest. That doesn't look like the most direct route, but when
you're hitchhiking you have to take whatever rides you can get. She's short of
money and sleeping rough. In the opening scene we see her having sex with the
manager of a gun club to get a job as a waitress.
Louise is the manager of a gym. When Jackie comes in to work out the two
become lovers. They're both lesbians. Jackie only sleeps with men when she
needs something from them.
It's a small town where everyone knows everyone. Louise's father is the owner
of the gun club. The man Jackie slept with is Louise's brother-in-law JJ.
Louise's father also makes money by illegally smuggling guns into Mexico. The
FBI suspects him, but doesn't have enough proof to act.
Things start moving when Louise's sister Beth is so badly beat up by JJ that
she ends up in hospital. Jackie takes revenge, breaking into JJ's home and
killing him with her bare hands. Murder needs to be carefully planned.
Spontaneously killing someone leaves clues. Jackie and Louise do their best to
get rid of the evidence, but it's not easy.
The plot meanders on, with ever deepening conflicts. I shouldn't give away
anything else, except that the film becomes even more fascinating as it
continues.
I have a simple question. Is it normal for a bodybuilder to be a heavy smoker?
I would have thought that Jackie would do without cigarettes in order to
remain fit.
This was a good film to open the Nights Festival. I admit that I enjoyed the
lesbian sex scenes with gratuitous nudity. What do you expect from me?
I'm a man.
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