该片是金依萌的毕业作品，讲述了一名作家和其塑造的人物“蛇蝎美人”之间殊死搏斗的故事，该片被美国电视艺术和科学学院授予“全美大学生电视艾美奖”。（注：这是来自中国内地的女留学生首次赢得这一荣誉），并获2004美国荷岚独立电影节“最佳短电影奖”。

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.