When Casey, a dancer who is discovered on YouTube, gets thrust into the modern world of internet celebrity and culture, she must find a way to balance her true identity with her online persona, or risk losing everything she cares about.

　　After a short split prologue showing riches as the root of evil in ancient and modern times, the film settles into 1914 France, where the Orient Express is about to be wrecked when a bridge washes out. Among those on board are Al and Travis, Americans who are traveling Europe spending Travis' money, and Marie, a German girl. The boys save Marie after the wreck and Travis falls in love with her. When World War I breaks out Al wants to enlist, but Travis can't, feeling loyal to Marie, a German. By 1917 Al has enlisted, and Travis follows him shortly after marrying Marie. Accused of being a German spy by a Russian agent, she is sentenced to die but is recognized by Travis, who is part of the firing squad. The town they are in is shelled and they are all trapped underground, during which a minister makes a lengthy parallel to ancient times when the King of Akkad persecuted his subjects and defied Jehovah, who finally sends a flood to wipe out mankind, except for Noah and his family, whom he has instructed to build an ark and fill it with two of every creature on earth.

安（朱丽叶·比诺什 Juliette Binoche 饰）是一位颇有名气的记者，在旁人眼里，工作能力出色同时又被丈夫和孩子簇拥着的安无疑是成功女性的典范。但在安的内心里，焦虑和烦躁无时不刻不困扰着她，家庭所带来的束缚让她越来越无法全心全意的将自己投入到工作中去。 　　安目前手头上的工作是调查社会上盛行的援助交际的内幕，在某个知名的援交网站上，安结识了阿莉恰（Joanna Kulig 饰）和夏洛特（阿奈丝·德穆斯捷 Ana?s Demoustier 饰）两名女子。从她们的叙述中，安发现了一个自己至今闻所未闻的残酷世界，在那里，性无关乎爱，仅仅是一笔交易。在采访的过程中，安没有忘记审视自己的内心，此时此刻，那些深藏其中的欲望和激情开始发出光芒。

　　The film shows an obscure episode from the life of a Stalinist criminal - Colonel of the Office of Public Security, Julia Brystiger. Her nickname was "Bloody Luna" because during interrogations she tortured prisoners with extreme cruelty. At the beginning of 1960s she appeared in Laski near Warsaw, in the Institute for the Blind, where the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, was also a frequent visitor. His imprisonment in the years 1953-1956 was supervised by none other than Julia Brystiger herself. During the difficult and tempestuous conversation with the Primate, Julia Brystiger rejects the communist ideology, asks for her crimes to be forgiven and for help in finding God...

故事改编自杰夫·伯曼的同名纪实回忆录，讲述当年他在终点等待参赛的女友时，不幸遭遇炸弹袭击，失去双腿，并重新生活的个人经历。