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Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs. Maverick director Michael Winterbottom wondered about the double standard of why novels can have explicit sex scenes and be legit and films could not.

The title refers to the nine songs played by eight different rock bands that complement the story of the film. It was controversial upon original release due to its sexual content, which included unsimulated footage of the two leads, Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley , having sexual intercourse and performing oral sex as well as a scene of ejaculation. The film tells the modern love story set over a period of 12 months in London, England, of a young couple: Matt, a British climatologist , and Lisa, an American exchange student.