关于故事的故事，一切要从这年青学生的怪遭遇讲起。

他刚杀了人，双手血仍未冷，第一件要做的事，却是到附近的舞场，聆听这醉酒水手的传奇一生。不记得多少年前，水手从自己的家乡启程，搭上一艘由幽灵驾驶的远航船。鬼船的诅咒是：他是唯一一个船上的生灵。鬼船在拉丁美洲各个港口漂荡，水手随船到处经历，在船上、妓院、码头间度过比神话更匪夷所思的历险。

这许多魔幻经历，满有波赫士小说的魔幻神采，而以别创一格的视觉及美术效果呈现，反映出拉乌尔 鲁兹(Raoul Ruiz)对超现实、表现主义影像的驾驭，可谓惊世骇俗。

二次大战初期，艾丽斯的丈夫被逼自杀，而身为犹太人的艾丽斯被爱恋着她的法国人热罗姆偷偷带到了法国，住在他的好友夏尔家中。早年丧妻的夏尔渐渐喜欢上了艾丽斯。而热罗姆由于抵抗组织的工作，很少呆在她的身边，艾丽斯难以选择。一次，夏尔因为艾丽斯而遭到德国人的毒打，也因而得到了她的爱。热罗姆伤心而去，不慎被捕。在感情与恐惧的压力下。艾丽斯离开了夏尔，而夏尔也投身到了抵抗运动中。

Hortense has a big heart and no one to share it with except her cat, her embittered mom, and a group of homeless people for whom she prepares a gourmet dinner at the local church every week. While buying a nice bottle of wine, Hortense meets Jacques, a fifty-something, grumpy local cellarman. Eager to see him again, she attends a chaotic wine tasting in Jacques’ shop - meeting his best friend who clumsily tries to seduce her, and his new apprentice who turns out to have a rare gift for tasting as well as an unfiltered honesty. As Hortense and Jacques grow closer and closer, their past begins to catch up to them.

Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village. It is 1940, and the quiet town is ruled by French colonialists appointed by the Vichy government. Algerians are being called up for service in the Vichy military, and Jews in the village are in danger of deportation. A beautiful young schoolteacher named Claire Boyer (Veronique Jannot) arrives in town and turns every male head within miles, including 14-year-old Mouloud (Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, the director's son). Simon Attal (Michel Boujenah), a fellow teacher and a Jew, is also attracted to Claire, and so is Mouloud's older brother. Suddenly two murders occur in the village, Simon is in danger of being deported, and the tone shifts from the dreams of boyhood to the realities of manhood.

À quinze ans, Charlotte a tout pour être heureuse. Elle réussit sa scolarité, fait du théâtre et de la musique, est appréciée de son entourage et a une meilleure amie, Babou. Mais elle n'ose parler à personne de ce qui la tourmente.