I watched a documentary last night called Crazy Love, that can be summed up this way:

Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy has lye thrown in girl's face. Girl goes blind. Boy goes to jail. Boy gets out of jail. Boy marries blind girl. They live, not so happily ever after.

Rent it. It's terrific.

UPDATE: My friend Phil says this film ought to be called: Sex, Lye and Videotape.