法国大导阿伦雷乃1983年作品。本片用三个故事阐述他的观点，同时向法国电影史上三位巨人致敬：梅里爱、莱皮埃、侯麦。第一个故事发生在1914年，一个贵族建立了“幸福殿堂”，邀请一帮朋友，给他们一剂特殊的药，然后把他们放进巨大的摇篮，让他们重新回到“孩提时代”；第二个故事发生在当代，依然是那个宫殿，一群专家正在召开研讨会，讨论“想像力教育”。穿插在两个故事之间是一个古代魔幻故事，讲一群森林里的孩子梦幻一场坏国王和好骑士的战争。

故事一开始，男主角和老婆生活在一起，一瞬间，相处几十年的老婆就这么离开。然而，这位孤单的老头，居然在十天之内，就开始想找人整理自己的生活了。于是，他来到了罗马尼亚，这群罗马尼亚年轻女人为了要离开这里，一见到他就一定会说一句“我觉得您好帅”。说到后来，连他都觉得厌烦了。当年轻的女主角就在准备说出这句话时，被征友社的人使眼色，才让事情有所转机……

With the natural splendour of Lac Léman as a back-drop, Le Mirage is the story of a woman who believes she can recapture her youth by rediscovering love... with no regard for the inescapable realities of life. Maria Tummler, still quite beautiful despite her fifty years, is suddenly possessed with a consuming passion for a young visiting American, a friend of her son. But neither Jeanne, her friend, nor Anna, her daughter and faithful confidante, have a right to know, even though the young girl can see the emotion in her mother's eyes and is delighted to witness the physical transformation seemingly taking place. Maria is prepared to live this miracle of resuscitated love to its very end, even as some signs of a strange physical weariness begin to invade her new-found sense of well-being.

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.