 A central element of the 1980s British woman's film is the motif of escape.Woman's films allow their respective female protagonists to escape their everyday lives and their socially and sexually prescribed roles.The escape can take the form of a journey to another place such as the USSR in "Letter to Brezhnev" (1985) and Greece in "Shirley Valentine" (1989) or education as in "Educating Rita" (1983) and sexual initiation as in "Wish You Were Here" (1987).