“勒达贝”多年前就退休了，现在他住在热带地区，拥有马厩和马匹。他是一个非常富有的人。他曾经是所有伪造货币者的王者。他收到了来自巴黎的联系，要他组织一次新的工作。他拒绝了。但当他发现应该伪造的货币是荷兰福林时，他立即接受了。他在威尔海明娜女王将100福林纸币从流通中撤回之前退休了。他飞往巴黎。但这个团伙是不值得信任的，至少不是全部成员。

Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand of her older, plainer sister in marriage. Gaston instead joins Caroline in her secret hiding place in the château's attic, where the infatuated Caroline begins an affair with him. Meanwhile, she is being courted by the dull, sincere Livio, but holds him off since she is in love with Gaston. When the revolution of 1789 breaks out Caroline is sent to a convent but her carriage is waylaid. She escapes and makes her way to Gaston's home, where she finds him in the arms of his mistress. She is angry and then agrees to marry Livio, now an out-of-favor revolutionary and a marked man, and Caroline is also now on the death list.

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare's timeless heroes. Indeed their union is threatened by the schemings of Raffaele, the Maglia family's dubious tout...

克劳德是一名音乐老师，为了逃离平庸的生活，他沉溺于梦想之中。他梦想到了1900年，被魅力无限的女人们包围，争相向他献媚。但是渐渐地，美梦却慢慢变成了噩梦。