克里斯·莱默和她年幼的儿子杰瑞米搬到一个小乡村时，他们完全不知道自己的到来重新唤醒了过去的恐怖。

　　安妮塔（英格丽·褒曼 Ingrid Bergman 饰）是一名极富才华的钢琴师，一次偶然之中，她邂逅了名为霍尔格（莱斯利·霍华德 Leslie Howard 饰）的小提琴师。霍尔格在行业内是数一数二的顶尖人物，尽管已经有了妻室，但惺惺相惜的安妮塔和霍尔格两人还是抵挡不住爱情的诱惑，违背了道德走到了一起。　　安妮塔和霍尔德结伴前往世界各地展开巡回演出，这一段疯狂的日子充满了幸福和难忘的时刻，让安妮塔短暂忘记了自己的处境。然而，安妮特的老师格瑞塔（爱德娜·贝斯特 Edna Best 饰）将前者拉回了现实之中，在格瑞塔的谆谆教诲之下，安妮塔开始意识到自己的存在对霍尔格的家人造成了巨大的伤害，经过了痛苦的思量，安妮塔最终决定结束这段感情。

　　迪恩（大卫·萨克莱夫 David Sutcliffe 饰）是一位作家，一次偶然中，他遇见了一个名叫帕布罗（小安东尼奥·萨巴图 Antonio Sabato Jr. 饰）的英俊男子，两人看对上了眼，共同享受了一夜缠绵，之后，帕布罗不告而别。　　迪恩发现自己深深地爱上了神秘的帕布罗，于是决定前往南美洲寻找他的爱人。可是，让迪恩没有想到的是，他并没有能够找到爱人，却找到了爱人的两个情人索菲亚（Celina Font 饰）和马克斯（Leonardo Brzezicki 饰），从两人处，迪恩得知了帕布罗其实是一个薄情寡义的混蛋。然而，即便如此，迪恩还是没办法放弃这段感情，而他不知道的是，在一来二去之间，马克斯竟然爱上了自己。

　　伊丽莎白是一位天才外科医生，也是医院里唯一的女性顾问。但在为一位年轻女性做手术时，事情发生了可怕的变化。在一项公开报告外科医生表现的新计划中，她的同事们开始团结起来，伊丽莎白的生活陷入混乱。伊丽莎白坚强而粗鲁，在这个要求最高的领域生存下来并取得了成功。但她能承受一次失误吗？

　　Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’　　The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.