A poverty-stricken but optimistic woman emigrates from Europe to the US to lead a new life. Stricken with a debilitating optical disease she knows will eventually make her blind, she toils night and day to raise enough money for an operation to spare her son the same fate. But when she is falsely accused of a crime, all her plans for the future are poised to end in tragedy. Lars Von Trier's musical drama, starring Bjork, Catherine Deneuve and Udo Kier