故事发生在1955年的法国南特，图片彼时那里正在进行一场轰轰烈烈的工人罢工运动，图片而钢铁工人弗朗西斯（理查·贝里 Richard Berry 饰）就是参与其中的一员。弗朗西斯租下了寡妇玛格特（达尼尔·达黎欧 Danielle Darrieux 饰）手里的一间房子，玛格特虽然是资产阶级，但是却对工人阶级充满了同情，时长向他们伸出援手。弗朗西斯有一个相恋多年的女友瓦雷特（Fabienne Guyon 饰），虽然瓦雷特腹中已经怀上了他的孩子，但这个冷漠残酷的男人还是选择抛弃了她，转而将注意力投向了一个名叫艾迪斯（多米尼克·桑达 Dominique Sanda）的女人。艾迪斯嫁给了一个富有的商人，可婚后的生活却令她苦不堪言，为了排遣内心的愤懑，艾迪斯偷偷从事着妓女的职业。
回复 :生活在深圳的一家蒙古人，为了挽救儿子与儿媳即将触礁的婚姻，70岁的老额吉决定在家里举办一年一度蒙古传统节日----马奶节。虽然在大都市举办马奶节困难重重，但一家人还是沉浸在蒙古节日的兴奋之中。
回复 :Joachim 是一个生活在巴黎、事业成功的电视编剧。四十岁生日的临晨，他决定放弃一切——孩子、友人、敌人、爱情与遗憾——去美国从零开始。之后，他带领“新滑稽艳舞团”（New Burlesque ）回到故乡进行巡演。艳舞团团员因Joachim 而对法国巴黎充满向往。幽默的表演和脱衣舞娘丰满的身材令男女老少沉迷不已。尽管下榻的旅馆平庸不堪，使用的电梯音乐（musique d’ascenseur ）乏善可陈，又缺乏资金，女演员依然营造出了新奇、热情而欢乐的气氛。但是，他们决定在巴黎演出压轴戏，将巡演推向高潮的梦想破裂了：Joachim 的老“朋友”背叛了他，取消了其预定的演戏场所。巴黎之行似乎注定来去匆匆，过去种种伤感的回忆突然被揭开……Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind - his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets to start a new life in America. But he returns with a team of New Burlesque strip-tease performers whom he has filled with romantic dreams of a tour of France, of Paris!Traveling from town to town, despite the cheap hotel rooms and lack of money, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism that wins an enthusiastic response from men and women alike.But their dream of a tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform. An obligatory return journey to the capital violently reopens the old wounds of his past...
回复 :After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.