Too Much Flesh

35-year-old American farmer Lyle lives in a sterile marriage with his puritanical wife Amy who loves him but remains faithful to her fiancé who died tragically many years before. The farmer’s life changes dramatically when he is paid a visit by Vernon, a friend from his childhood, now a successful writer, who brings with him his French girlfriend Juliette. The liberal-minded girl convinces Lyle that the frustrations which prevented him from living a normal sexual existence throughout his adulthood are a mere figment of his imagination. With Juliette the man experiences physical passion for the first time in his life, which naturally traumatises Amy and causes outrage in the conservative rural environment. Lyle tries vainly to assure his wife that his relationship with the French woman is based purely on sex and that he still loves her. After an open demonstration against this “adulterous” union at a harvest festival, the enraged community decides to punish Lyle. The decision reached by the bigoted farmers to take moral justice into their own hands can only culminate in tragedy. This middle part of a loosely-connected trilogy examines the theme of sexual freedom. Even though the film was made with a digital camera, it abandons the rules of the Dogma 95 manifesto.