在这部耶尔玛剧情片中,片由加西亚·洛尔卡的著作改编，奥斯卡获奖演员米里亚姆·迪亚斯·阿罗卡参演。安达卢西亚文化与伦敦现代上流社会撞击后的产物。本片将经典故事《耶尔玛》搬到现代伦敦。美丽的伊娃和她极富野心的丈夫结婚四年后仍没有孩子。伊娃一方面很想成为一位母亲，另一方面又需要扮演好家中的角色。本片跌宕起伏，充分的反映了主人公在现代社会同样受到传统观念的束缚以及压迫。结局出人意料又在情理之中。
Eva Stone is a woman with strong conservative beliefs. She is married to John, a British politician and a business man of Spanish origin, who is unable to have children. To Eva, a woman's life has no meaning if she is not a mother. A Spanish theater company is in London to perform Yerma, the play by Federico García Lorca. The Director, Victor is a friend of Eva and her husband from bygone times. A new passion is reborn between Eva and Victor and Eva has new opportunities to get pregnant. Eva's true drama is not so much that she can't have children but the impossibility, because of strict social conventions, that she can't have them out of wedlock. The real problem shown in the movie is the lack of freedoms and the imposed self-censorship in a standstill and full of conventions society.
