Scenes of a steamy Tennessee Williams style 50's film, Valley of Desire, are found in an old cinema at Nelson Bay. Are the scenes from a forgotten Hollywood masterpiece staring Miss Elizabeth Taylor or scenes from a cheap Australian copy starring Miss Tanya Stark (Tanya Spark)? The Film Historian (Robert Herbert) becomes entwined in a tangled web of memory and fiction as he tries to discover the origins of the celluloid images. A faux documentary, Valley of Desire explores the notion that our memories are as much personal fictions as fact.