Based on Potter's 1987 novel,Blackeyes is an exploration of authorship and sexual identity. MauriceKingsley (Michael Gough), an aging and soured litterateur, hastranslated the experiences of his niece Jessica (Carol Royle) into alurid novel about the exploitation of a beautiful fashion model,Blackeyes (Gina Bellman). Jessica, feeling betrayed, seeks revenge byattempting to rewrite Kingsley's narrative. Both uncle and niece trydesperately to manipulate the alluring Blackeyes: Kingsley in order torestore his waning career as a novelist, Jessica in an attempt toreclaim her already exploited past. The first film directed by Potter,Blackeyes is a labyrinth of narrative paths. Potter shifts authorialvoices with uncanny ease, forcing the viewer to decide who iscontrolling the story. Potter himself provides a wry and reflexivevoice-over narration, helping to explicate "what goes on betweenmen and women in their heads, to show the possibilities of the ways thatthey see each other." Having been accused in the past of misogyny,here Potter attempts to bring greater complexity to his femalecharacters, to the abused model and to the model upon which she ismodelled. Potter: "The narration aches with that ambivalence, infact it is very much the dramatic tension of the piece: are youcomplicit with what you are allegedly exposing?"