A STEETCAR NAMED DESIRE, 1955

New Orleans. Two streetcars, Desire and Cemetery, run on the same track. 
Blanche Dubois, a faded beauty, from a former socially high placed southern family, comes from Laurel (Lousiana) to her sister's place to stay with her. She is shocked to see how poor her sister's home looks and even more shocked to meet her sister's husband, Stanley, a work class bully of Polish ancestry. The man is raw, vulgar and brutally masculine. He doesen't mind to disrobe in front of her, swears loudly, spends his evenings drinking and playing cards and treats his wife, Stella, rudely. Stella is completely subjugated. She loves him in an almost animal way, depending on their sexual relationship.  

Stanley immediately takes a dislike for his sister-in-law and her aristocratic manners. He sees her as a danger for his family safety, since she reminds her sister of the educated environment they were raised in and shows her how she has been lowered by this marriage. 

Blanche is a deranged woman. She was once married to a young man, who committed suicide because he couldn't live with his homosexuality. Blanche blames herself for not guessing his inner trouble and often imagines to hear the music they were dancing on a few minuts before he shot himself. After her husband's death, she tried to live on her teaching work, while caring for her old parents and fighting to salvage the family estate. Now, her parents are also dead and the estate is gone, so is her job, along with her respectability. She endearvours to preserve her sanity by living in an unreal world, where she still is a great beauty with many devoted suitors. She lies, but she believes her own lies most of the time. 

Mitch, a Stanley's friend, seems to be attracted by Blanche. He's a shy, mother-depending man, and he's also aware that, with his mother's imminent death, he will be alone. Blanche sees a chance of redemption and runs it. She tells him part of her sad story, but also acts as a virtuous woman, not allowing him to touch her. She also manages to always have him looking at her in dim light, so that he can't guess her real age.

Stanley manages to obtain informations about Blanche's past, which is all but immaculate - she even was fired from her teaching job, because of a sexual relationship with one of her students - and exposes her with Mitch. After that, he uncerimoniously presents her with a streetcar ticket to Laurel. Then, in his madness for revenge, he rapes her, while his wife is in the hospital giving birth to his baby.

A few days later, Stella and the baby are back from hospital. Stella refuses to believe of her husband's abuse. Blanche retreats in her made up world all the more and Stanley talks his wife into having her taken to a mental institution. Blanche, at first, fights the poeple who's taking her out, but in the end she gives in to the kindness of an elder doctor, saying: "You know, I always depended on the kindness of strangers".