介绍：Claudie, a young French woman, inherits her uncle's property in Algeria, much to the disappointment of her scheming cousins Diane and Manuel. On the ferry she meets and falls for Pierre, an idle young man who has squandered his inheritance and is on his way to beg from Christian, his rich but rough-and-ready uncle, who owns a neighbouring farm to Claudie's. Made to work on the farm by Christian as a loan condition, Pierre is soon a changed man, and proposes to Claudie. But when his Arab friend Zoubir invites the Europeans on a hunting party, Diane and Manuel see their chance to move against their cousin.

介绍：该片以回忆的方式记叙了一个忧郁的巴黎青年人努力寻找现代大都市生活的意义和生命的故事他在宗教，政治中找不到幸福和生活的理由，甚至在他自己身上也找不到。于是他把时间花在两个女人的身上，希望这样能够永久联系在一起。

介绍：马塞尔（安德烈·维尔姆斯 André Wilms 饰）曾经是一个小有名气的作家，可是，热爱自由的他厌倦了作家高高在上的枯燥生活，于是来到了勒阿弗尔，摇身一变成为了一个快乐的擦鞋匠勒阿弗尔可爱而又热情的居民让马塞尔找到了心灵的归宿，在这里，马塞尔过上了梦寐以求的平静而又安定的生活。　　一个非洲男孩的出现打破了马塞尔规律的生活，出于同情和本能，马塞尔收留了这个被警察追得到处跑的可怜男孩。屋漏偏逢连夜雨，在此节骨眼上，马塞尔的妻子阿勒提（卡蒂·奥廷宁 Kati Outinen 饰）患上了恶疾需卧床休养，一边是凶神恶煞的警察，一边是病危的妻子，马塞尔一下子被推到了命运的十字路口。