Princess & Buddha
Princess
& Buddha is a sexy tale of desire and betrayel as
college professor, Victoria Neve, steps out of the comfort
of her academic world and into the Seattle grunge music
scene in pursuit of Billy Fields, a charming yet volatile
young grunge girl with a sordid past.
Set
in the Seattle grunge era, Billy Fields embodies the conflicted
grunge movement: carefree and self-destructive. When she
meets the striking Victoria, she sees in her an opportunity
to improve her life, and places her faith and dreams in
this new relationship. Victoria, on the other hand, finds
in Billy a world of passion and personal freedom that
she has never experienced. The pair is swept up into a
world of desire that effaces their differences in class
and education. Soon, however, the pressures from Billy's
substance abuse past and Victoria's upper-class mindset
break into both of their fantasies. Billy's love for life
and living for the moment is overshadowed by her inner
turmoil and haunting demons of the past. Victoria uses
Billy's past transgressions as a means of escape when
she is faced with issues of commitment to Billy and the
relationship they have formed. When Billy experiences
the backlash of Victoria's emotional opennss she spirals
into an abyss of drugs and crime. Victoria retreats into
the familiarity of her career and a safe, yet passionless,
relationship with an admiring colleague.
From
Billy's climatic arrest the story jumps forward two years
when Billy is released from prison and decides to take
another chance on Victoria. It initially appears that
history is to repeat itself, but Victoria soon learns
that the emotional dynamics have shifted. The new Billy
is someone to be reckoned with and Victoria's old habits
of deception and emotional detachment have run their course.
Victoria and Billy are given another chance to find out
what is true and what is love.
