i have rent this gem several time . it a small and yet somehow sprawl masterpiece take the viewer from manhattan glitz to the beauty of the greek island . john cassavetes on screen marriage to his real life wife gena rowlands be on the rock . he find mean in a fling with footloose susan sarandon whom he find in greece while their daughter and play in her early film role by the pubescent molly ringwald and fall for the son of the greek shipping tycoon who be court her mother on a yacht sailing in neighbor water . meanwhile and the immensely talented raul julia play a goatherd living in a cave with his sony trinitron . he have the hots for molly ringwald character until confront by john cassavetes . all come together at the end in a classic closing scene where all be reconcile . raul julia and the goatherd and be see dance with his goat . this film be full of mysticism and beauty and young and old love and humor and sexiness and and more . see it .