惊险的海盗夺金故事，浪荡的谐趣，均被波兰斯基凌厉精妙的手法传奇般复活。影片讲述为了抢夺金冠，海盗们与西班牙官员展开了一次又一次的战斗。兜兜转转之间，原来一切又似乎回到了原点。

万森斯一家（工作狂克里斯蒂安，他的妻子比莉和两个孩子兰加和蒂莫）和大多数家庭一样过着平凡人的生活。四年后，终于迎来休假的一家人决定坐游船游览加勒比海，尽管弗林船长和他那年久失修的破船离他们想象的相去甚远。万森斯一家并不知道，等待他们的将是一次令他们毕生难忘的旅行……一伙海盗强行霸占了船，万森斯一家不得不乘救生筏在海上漂流。最终，他们来到了一个荒凉的，长满棕榈树的小岛。虽然暂时逃出了死神的魔爪，但他们的前景并不乐观。没有住所，没有食物，他们必须想办法在这艰苦的条件下存活下去。这时，从海盗手中逃出的弗林船长也来到了小岛。原本对他怀有戒心的克里斯蒂安渐渐意识到，只有团结才能助他们逃离这个孤岛……

Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been housewife for most of her life and and living in small backwater town of Borg, there isn’t many jobs available and soon she finds herself fending a youth football team.

　　To chase her dream of going to school in her remote Himalayan village, a feisty paraplegic girl locks horns with her tradition-bound grandfather.　　Sprightly Chuskit's dream of going to school is cut short when she is rendered a paraplegic after an accident. She's confined to life indoors in the company of her strict grandfather, Dorje. Chuskit continues to harbor hopes of school but Dorje tries to make her understand that school can't handle her needs. As life at home gets harder, her battle with her grandfather exacerbates. Caught in between their struggle are Chuskit's parents and her enterprising brother who want to respect the old world views that Dorje represents, but also want to keep Chuskit's spirit alive. Chuskit will have to get her grandfather to yield or she will have to accept the reality he has chosen for her.

赞努西打开国际影坛大门的早期代表作，以繁复而疏离的形式和内省的命题著称。 藉由一心进入知名学府物理系就读的男主角，日后恋爱、辍学、逃离尘世到回归体制的过程，不断从生活、精神、 思想上发掘冲突与辩证，游走在性灵与现实、自由与责任的拉据。不仅反映了当时波兰青年知识份子的心境， 也确立赞努西日后作品的内在主题。