Grief-stricken Jamie treasured a shoebox with a picture of her mother Laurie at 17 years of age, who had recently died in a car accident.The screen goes black and a title appears: "Texas 1868." The film begins with a frontier cabin door opening onto he wilderness.[The scene presents the visual motif of the framed doorway and threshold between the two worlds.The interior area in he cabin represents civilized values and the settled family.The brilliant, glaring, sunny outdoor area represents the savage and hreatening land of the western frontier loner.Baby Doll""simpact was heightened by its themes: moral decay, lust, sexual repression, seduction, infantile eroticism and the corruption of the human soul.In a state of shock, Nancy spoke to her father: "Now do you believe me?" She suggested that her father go downstairs while she was left alone in the bedroom.He is still ""suspended"" between his work and becoming involved (or personally committed) with Midge.From there, the scene cuts to Scottie, who is to meet with his old college friend - the well-dressed, prosperous, handsome Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore).