Somewhere on isolated mountainous plain. Johann has taken over his father’s farm, devoting all his time and energy to his work. Surrounded by a struggling community and a natural landscape that has taught him all he knows, his heritage is his entire life. As autumn goes and winter comes, a barn burns to the ground and jeopardizes the fragile balance of the farm's survival. The story of a man trying to love the world he belongs to one last time, as hard as he can, before it sinks into darkness.
Louis is a brooding loner who lives with two large white dogs in a forest near the French-Swiss border. His estranged son Sidney lives with his wife in a village nearby. Louis is carrying on an affair with the local pharmacist and carrying a torch for a beautiful, feral local dog breeder. He suffers a mild heart attack, and buys a new heart on the black market. Then he travels to South Korea, where he buys a boat and sails it to his former home, a dilapidated shack on a remote island south of Tahiti. His dream is to find the son he sired decades earlier when he lived there. However, once he is settled, his body begins to reject the alien heart.
一战前,德国人祖(奥斯卡·威内尔 Oskar Werner 饰)和法国人占(亨利·赛尔 Henri Serre饰)在巴黎结识。他们意趣相投,对诗歌和小说都有强烈而共同的兴趣,甚至二人为着同一个雕塑也着迷。顺理成章地,祖与占都爱上了同一个女子:聪明貌美的凯瑟琳(让娜·莫罗 Jeanne Moreau饰)。 在这样的关系中,占选择了成全温柔单纯的祖。他们一起到乡间度假,度过了美妙时光。然而一战的爆发,却让他们失去了联系,在自己国家服役期间,他们多么担心会在战场上杀死自己的好友。而祖,从不间断地给妻子凯瑟琳写信。 战争结束,祖与占再次相遇,占觉察到祖和凯瑟琳的关系很糟糕——她对婚姻以外的感情从没停止过追逐,喜欢在各种爱情关系中享受自由。占在祖家中住下,凯瑟琳毫不掩饰对占的爱,这段三角关系平衡而快乐的维系着,旁人完全看不透。当占要离去时,凯瑟琳直率锐利的性格...
西非尚处于后殖民时代,法国政府急于想从非洲大陆抽身。虽然士兵仓皇撤退,但是他们并没有放过玛利亚(伊莎贝尔于佩尔 Isabelle Huppert 饰)的种植园,因为传闻叛军头目——拳击手(伊萨赫德班克尔 Issach De Bankole 饰)就藏身于此。战火被引到了这里,但却赶上咖啡丰收的时刻。玛利亚手下的黑人雇工为了躲避战乱,逃匿得无影无踪。而当初与玛利亚共筑非洲梦的前夫安德烈(克里斯托弗兰伯特 Christopher Lambert 饰),早已另有新欢。安德烈娶了当地黑人女子,还生养了孩子,并准备偷偷卖掉种植园。家园危在旦夕,玛利亚赫然发现好吃懒做的独生子曼努埃尔(尼古拉斯迪富修尔 Nicholas Duvauchelle 饰)剃了光头,骑着摩托车,叫嚷着要加入叛军。灼热的土地上,似乎只剩下玛利亚她一个人在战斗……