在埃塞俄比亚的传说中，天后伊斯兰教苏菲派的伊玛目寻求永恒时，天后发现了卡塔叶。受此传说的启发，本片带领观众进入哈勒尔高地，体验古老的卡塔叶仪式，展开一段神秘的精神之旅。卡塔叶具有刺激神经的效用，几个世纪以来，苏菲派穆斯林依靠咀嚼这种绿叶来进行宗教冥想。它也是埃塞俄比亚利润最高的经济作物。本片以卡塔叶的交易为纽带，串起一个个私密的故事，让我们得以走近那些在政府暴力压迫下，对卡塔叶上瘾并冒险越境的人们。本片也为观众打开了一扇窗，进入被专制政权追捕的年轻人的梦。
周慧敏
回复 :讲述发生在一个私人医院内的情感纠葛。导演增村保造曾留学意大利，是日本电影战后派的新生力量。值得一提的是，在1966年松竹导演野村芳太郎的翻拍版本中，山田洋次出任了编剧一职。
张楚格
回复 :林锋被人打晕，醒来后发现自己被铁链绑在一个废旧的仓库里。一个戴着奇异面具的男人质问林锋：高建辉为什么跳楼自杀？面具男人自称是高建辉的儿子高小攀，他逼林锋说出高建辉死亡的真相。一个个与高建辉相关的人浮出水面。有对高建辉行贿的亲戚、高建辉的情人、高建辉公司的合伙人、高建辉的妻子。林锋还说他偷听到高建辉被一个叫三石的人勒索好几百多万。林锋以为说出了全部知道的真相，将很快被放。没想到，面具男人手持斧头挟持了林锋的女儿。面具男人丧心病狂地逼迫林锋让他不要隐瞒，把整个故事讲完整。三石究竟是谁？林锋和女儿能否逃出去？真相之下另有真相，原来每个人心中都蕴藏着一个不为人知的秘密，所有的“黑暗面”交织在一起如同一个巨大的漩涡，吞噬着贪婪、自私、欲望、复仇……最终，谁会得到救赎？
丹妮米洛
回复 :This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional (as far as I know, anyway) experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-force/army, etc. It's a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now 'he') doesn't really understand, especially since she's now a man ... Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of "Forrest Gump" in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation... However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing.
