Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie takes Frank/Frances into his home, and when he discovers her true identity, the two become lovers. He sends her to London to be trained by his mistress in the art of sex, but she learns much more about her identity as a woman. Before the opening credits, explicitly on-screen it reads: "Based on the famous Victorian erotic novel by an anonymous writer".

　　亨利（让·迦本 Jean Gabin 饰）经营着一家夜总会，进行一些下流艳俗的表演，擅长跳肚皮舞的劳拉（玛丽亚·费力克斯 María Félix 饰）是台柱一般的存在。不景气的经济和亨利的不善经营很快就让夜总会来到了濒临破产的边缘，就在这个节骨眼上，亨利认识了平凡的洗衣女工妮妮（弗朗索瓦·阿努尔 Françoise Arnoul 饰），在妮妮的身上，亨利看到了过人的天赋，并且开创了“康康舞”这一前所未有的舞蹈形式。凭借着康康舞，亨利的夜总会再度红火了起来，然而劳拉和妮妮之间日积月累的矛盾却在开业的那一天彻底爆发。之后，一位亲王爱上了妮妮，打算给夜总会投资，可眼红的劳拉却破坏了这桩生意。

　　卡门（玛鲁施卡•迪特马斯 Maruschka Detmers 饰）找到在医院住院的伯父戈达尔（让-吕克•戈达尔 Jean-Luc Godard 饰），借口和朋友拍摄电影向他要海边的别墅住。戈达尔状态怪诞，呆在医院里盼望着生病边写作，一边又渴望着能有拍片的机会，同意了卡门的要求。卡门在一场银行抢劫中结识了警察约瑟夫，两人搏斗后竟然互生好感相恋。卡门带约瑟夫来到了海边的别墅里。不久卡门对约瑟夫慢慢冷淡，约瑟夫却越来越离不开卡门，几次纠缠无果后他在卡门的一次抢劫行动中杀死了她。而伯父戈达尔却莫名其妙地被卷入了这场案件之中。而在平行世界的另一段，小提琴手克莱尔正安静地演奏弦乐四重奏......

　　《飞逝的狮子》(Le Lion Volatil，阿涅斯-瓦尔达，2003年/12分钟/彩色。一部喜剧短片，故事发生在瓦尔达居住的巴黎十四区，情节围绕丹菲尔—罗什露广场上的一尊狮子雕像展开，这尊狮子雕像见证了从广场经过的人们的种种活动：相遇、相识……

　　Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.