一名年轻的社会学家准备写一篇以犯罪女性为题材的论文，他在做资料搜集时，认识了一个女性连环杀人凶手，这个在农村长大的少女九岁时已经亲手杀死她的父亲，长大后先后谋杀了她的丈夫和她的几个情人。社会学家在不知不觉间，被她的故事和魅力感染，尽力帮助她找出有利证据，使得女囚无罪开释。出狱后的女囚犯故计重施，把社会学家送进了监狱。

The second movie of Kiarostami, made in 1972. It calls in my mind some of the very first movies of Brakhage, especially The Way to Shadow Garden. In both cases, a minimalistic gem, nothing explained, a personage without history, without motivation, with the unique role of putting in value a disconcerting universe.
Is it the admirable end of Breaktime a negative stasis (like in the movie of Brakhage)? Well, it is somehow a way to the Gardens of Shadow, too, though I think it is, much more, something else: it is an end refusing to be the end (as the movie actually has no beginning, also). This fourteen minutes movie dares to eliminate the story from its structure! It is a shame that Breaktime passed unobserved, because it was marking a new age in the history of cinema.

心理学家克里斯•凯尔文（Donatas Banionis 饰）在飞往索拉瑞斯星之前来到儿时的父母家与当年的索拉瑞斯飞行员亨利•伯顿（Vladislav Dvorzhetsky 饰）见面。伯顿警告凯尔文索拉瑞斯星上会有不可思议的奇事发生，但后者并不以为意。凯尔文离开前，当 着父亲（尼古莱•格陵柯Nikolai Grinko 饰）的面焚毁了自己的个人物品。凯尔文到达索拉瑞斯星附近的太空站后，对科学家奇巴瑞安博士（Sos Sargsyan 饰）之死进行调查，却发现自己多年前已经去世的妻子哈莉（Natalya Bondarchuk 饰）竟突然出现。惊慌失措的凯尔文与太空站上另三位科学家讨论该如何面对怪事，却发现原来每人都深受其扰，不明就里……
本片被提名1972年戛纳电影节金棕榈奖，并获同年戛纳电影节评委会大奖和国际影评人协会大奖。