20世纪初南美秘鲁。痴迷歌剧的白人菲茨杰拉德（克劳斯·金斯基 Klaus Kinski饰）被当地人称为空想家“菲茨卡拉多”。菲茨卡拉多经常做出一些令人无法理解的举动，尤其当他在巴西的亚马逊大剧院欣赏到世界著名男高音卡鲁索的演出之后，居然萌生出要在秘鲁小镇上也修建出一座宏大剧院的疯狂念头。为了获得足够的资金，菲茨卡拉多接受了当地橡胶大亨向他提出到神秘恐怖的乌圭里亚林区进行收割的任务，一段惊险刺激的旅程随之开始。

Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW (Piotr Lysak) and Paulina (Hanna Schygulla) a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with Switzerland. Their affair would have gone undetected except for the busybody women of the village, and when Stanislaw is picked up by a German stormtrooper (Armin Müller-Stahl) and brought in for a mock trial, he is given a chance to prove his racial purity and so perhaps escape execution. As for Paulina, she is ostracized by the villagers and imprisoned for consorting with someone who was not of the same high Aryan caste as herself. Depressing, yet politically relevant to Poland of the early 1980s, this film by acclaimed director Andrzej Wajda) is an effective and emotional statement on the nature of oppression.