Manuel Puig's "Kiss of the Spider Woman"

The title alone is what drew me in to read it when I was reading through the book reviews in one of my magazines. In reading what it was about it hit that "interesting" factor in my head. I am currently half way done in reading the book. But I am looking forward to seeing the 1985 movie portraying the very same characters from the book.

Synopsis: Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell, each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.