Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the woods, even to forget them. Jimmy's more and more frequent skids end up alarming his wife Carole. Soon, the fragile family balance is broken when Jimmy is interned in a psychiatric hospital. When Gina meets Nico, a boy from her neighborhood, she awakens to love and sees a chance to escape her father.

在1795年的法国，下级军官拿破仑遇见了美丽的约瑟芬，一见钟情的两人很快就走到了一起。之后，拿破仑在战争中的出色表现和人民对他的拥戴引起了巴黎政府的不满，上司将拿破仑派往了遥远而又危险的埃及。

　　远在埃及的拿破仑得知国家的安全正受到反法联盟的威胁之时果断回国发动政变，最终成功的成为了首席执行官。然而到了1807年，在沙皇的支持和怂恿下，奥地利出兵法国，为了维系政权的稳固，拿破仑不得不同奥地利公主和亲，然而一切已经为时已晚，与此同时，悲伤的约瑟芬亦离开了拿破仑。