一名滑雪者（Massimo Boldi）在阿尔卑斯山的冰层下发现了一名来自洞穴的妇女（Eva Grimaldi）。

Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some Gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.

In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St. Petersburg. Along the journey, political tensions and personal dramas unfold, culminating in a historic arrival.

根据大仲马的小说《基督山伯爵》改编而成。年轻水手爱德蒙（Gérard Depardieu饰）原本是一个前程远大，生活美满的年青人，就在他即将升为船长，并和心爱姑娘成婚之际，却突然蒙受不白之冤入狱，并被判终身监禁。在监狱里度过18年暗无天日的生活后，爱德蒙偶然与法里亚神甫相遇，或许是上天的安排，爱德蒙得以借助神甫逃了出去，并根据神甫的指示在基督山岛找到了富可敌国的金银珠宝。爱德蒙回到马赛，却发现一切面目全非：父亲在饥饿中死去，未婚妻改嫁他人，陷害他的人则成为上等人过着富裕安稳的日子。改头换面后，爱德蒙以“基督山伯爵”的身份展开他的复仇计划，誓要向当初陷害他的费尔南、唐格拉尔、维尔福等人讨回他失去的一切，一个荡气回肠，引人入胜的复仇记就此展开。