In small czech town named Jilemnice live unfortunate, but brave and jovial woman Štěpa Kiliánová, whose only desire was to fill the void in her virgin life. In despair and excessive trust, she married a sardonic, reclusive man, former lieutenant and gambler Pavel Malina, whose only wish was finally found peace and forgetting the past. They lived through unrequited love, dislike and disappointment. But no one knew that her groom begin to show signs of cerebral disease, which in the coming years engulf his sanity.

　　华莉丝（莉亚•科贝德 Liya Kebede 饰）出生在索马里的沙漠和母亲过着游牧民族的生活。在三岁时，华莉丝按照索马里习俗就被施以女性割礼。十二岁时父亲为了得到五头骆驼，要将华莉丝嫁给六十岁的老叟。就在出嫁前夜，华莉丝在母亲的默许下，在沙漠中徒步很久投奔摩加迪沙的外祖母,也在外祖母那里获得了去给当时索马里驻英国大使夫人的姨妈作女佣的机会。到英国后不久，索马里爆发战争，旧政府被推翻，华莉丝趁乱再次出逃大使馆而流浪英国街头。　　华莉丝在街头邂逅了收留自己的玛丽莲（莎莉•霍金斯 Sally Hawkins 饰），跟着又在打工的餐厅里遇到伯乐，最终被发掘成为世界名模，并投身于妇女解放事业。　　电影《沙漠之花》是根据出生于索马里的黑人模特华莉丝•迪里的自传畅销书改编。

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.

　　强大并且致命的海啸正袭击着美国东海岸，这引起了五角大楼高度的重视，经过科学家们的研究分析，发现这股可怕的力量并不是来源于大自然，而是恐怖分子在海洋里引爆的核武器，这一切都被一位科学家所掌握，他要在恐怖分子进行第二次核爆炸前，阻止事情的再度发生，一切都是未知数……

故事设定于18世纪90年代，在英国崎岖山路上，“龙卷风”（木村光希 饰）发现自己陷入了危险境地。她与父亲在木偶剧巡回演出路上，遇到了残忍的犯罪团伙，并发生了冲突。该团伙由舒格曼（蒂姆·罗斯 饰）和他的儿子小舒格曼（杰克·劳登 饰）领导。为了获取新的生活，“龙卷风”抓住机会，偷走了犯罪团伙最近一次抢劫的金子，并奋力逃脱。