故事发生在解放初期的成都,国民党份子负隅顽抗在发电厂设置的威力巨大的炸药,只有亲手安装它的人才能将它平安无事的拆除,不幸的是,这名始作俑者已经去世。为了调查事件的真相,肖凡(蔡鸿翔 饰)一行人来到了圣保罗医院,一番波折之后却颗粒无收。直觉告诉肖凡,这所医院的院长老罗(李耕 饰)一定掩藏了什么不为人知的秘密。
俞惠英(陈玛雅 饰)是一名精神病患者,由女儿俞娜(吴珊珊 饰)和罗院长照料,而她的丈夫正是肖凡苦苦寻找的那个人,很显然,俞惠英和整个事件有着千丝万缕的联系。果不其然,俞惠英是知道炸药图纸的唯一一人,肖凡该做些什么,才能从她的口中套出图纸的下落呢?。吉尔•切恩(卡梅丽塔•杰拉蒂饰)是来应征天堂花园剧院的舞蹈演员,她和歌舞女郎帕齐•布拉德(弗吉尼亚•瓦利饰)成为了好朋友。后者说服剧院经理(格奥尔格•施内尔饰)给吉尔一个机会,吉尔凭借自己的勇气和才华被录取了,并成为了一位年长的俄国王子(卡尔•法尔肯贝格)的女友。吉尔的未婚夫休•菲尔丁(约翰•斯图尔特饰)和朋友莱维特(迈尔斯•曼德饰)来到剧院,然后休去远东淘金。帕奇被莱维特迷住想和他结婚,但莱维特抛弃她去找休。帕奇虽然难过,但得知莱维特生病的消息还是马上跑去照顾他,发觉他和当地一个女孩(妮塔•纳尔逊饰)住在一起。莱维特将女孩赶走要求帕奇留下,但帕奇拒绝了莱维特的无理要求,她转而照顾也在当地生病的休•菲尔丁。莱维特淹死了当地女孩,在幻觉中以为看到了鬼魂,当他用剑攻击帕奇的时候,为他们治病的英国医生及时用枪打死了莱维特。帕奇和休一起回到了伦敦。。The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。