The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: at first she takes her son abroad with an excuse and then has her grandson kidnapped making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.

　　故事发生在第二次世界大战刚刚结束之际，卡罗尔（埃琳诺·帕克 Eleanor Parker 饰）和保罗（让-皮埃尔·奥蒙特 Jean-Pierre Aumont 饰）的外遇恋情被卡罗尔的丈夫沃尔特（比尔·特拉弗斯 Bill Travers 饰）发现了，沃尔特给了卡罗尔两个选择，要么和他一起前往位于中国的一个非常偏僻的村庄之中，那里霍乱横行，要么就离婚。最终，卡罗尔在无奈之中和沃尔特一起上路了。　　在中国，卡罗尔结识了自由不羁的提姆（乔治·桑德斯 George Sanders 饰），并且通过他在修道院里谋了一份差事，卡罗尔和沃尔特之间的感情也随着时间的推移而渐渐修复，一切都看似在往井井有条的方向发展，可是，在这个节骨眼上，沃尔特染上瘟疫去世了，与此同时，卡罗尔发现自己怀孕了。

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.

皮埃尔（皮埃尔·里夏尔-威尔姆 Pierre Richard-Willm 饰）出生于一个富裕的家庭之中，养成了花钱大手大脚的坏毛病。当他的家人们发现，皮埃尔一直都在背地里偷窃家族财产后，他遭到了家族的驱逐。不仅如此，但皮埃尔深爱的女友发现自己的男友不再像以前那样豪爽和富有之后，这个现实的女人抛弃了皮埃尔。 　　人生遭遇了重大变故和挫折的皮埃尔决定离开伤心地前往摩洛哥，在那里的一间小酒馆中，皮埃尔邂逅了一位神秘的女子（Marie Bell 饰），这个女人拥有着和他念念不忘的前女友极为相似的面孔，这令皮埃尔一下子就被她吸引了。但随着时间的推移，皮埃尔发现，这个看似单纯的女人，身后隐藏了许多的秘密。