The daughter of a once-wealthy family, Amelia lives with her hysterical, invalid sister in a big, Victorian, cobalt-blue house. The magician says that the women’s dead father regularly visits at 8:20 on Tuesday mornings; the house does have that haunted look about it.
One night Amelia escapes from the rain into a sleazy bar. A series of unlikely but plausible events — meeting a childhood friend who is now a stripper, being painted with make-up by this woman’s daughter — allow the plain, proper Amelia to be mistaken for a whore. A doctor takes her home, pays her the next morning and apologetically says he could not have known she was a virgin. He is already married, to a dying woman, but from then on Amelia considers herself his faithful wife. —NY Times
Valeria Sarmiento (born 1948) is a Chilean film editor, director and screenwriter. She has directed 18 films since 1972. Her 1991 film Amelia Lópes O’Neill was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. She is the widow of Chilean film director Raúl Ruiz. —wikipedia
