Rose（贝特·米德勒 Bette Midler 饰）从很小的时候起就不是人群中受欢迎的那一个，她十分自卑于自己的样貌，也从未获得过一段真正的友谊。在十七岁那一年，Rose对音乐燃起了热情，她加入了一支乐队，并且在旧金山一代打响了名气。Rose的音乐风格非常的随性和狂野，通过 尖叫和怒吼，她试图发泄出内心的郁闷。
　　随着时间的推移，Rose的名气越来越大，她的梦想终于实现了——成为一名天王巨星。然而，成名带给她的除了金钱和利益外，却也有压力与痛苦。她放纵自己的欲望，贪图于享受声色犬马的乐趣，而这所有的一切，都是因为，在内心的深处，Rose依然觉得，自己是一个不被爱着的孩子。

　　展现了17世纪英国资产阶级革命（也可以说是世界历史）中最重要的一段历史时期，改革与保守势力之间的一场大决战。影片描述了奥利弗·克伦威尔推动并领导消弱专制王权、确立议会绝对权威斗争中的作用。从而最终奠定了延续至今的西方政体制度的基础。

　　Robert Tucker, a sorrowful, solitary man, given to bouts of weeping, tries to balance his life caring for his aging mother, his Catholicism, his homosexuality, and his dull job. One night, after his mother has gone to bed, he dons leather and heads for a private club. He telephones a tattoo artist with a special request. He goes to confession, accusing himself of despairing. He cries out during a nightmare, waking his mother. "You're a good boy," she's told him. He prays the Stations of the Cross, and he lives out his own sorrowful mysteries.

　　在一个精神病院，萨德侯爵排了一出关于让·保罗·马拉弥留之际的戏剧，而演员均是院里的病人。

　　未来，纽约，年轻巨富埃里克·帕克（罗伯特·帕丁森 Robert Pattinson 饰）坐在豪华轿车里，在保镖贴身保护下，前去从小就熟悉的那家理发店。一路上，他遇到形形色色的人，各种怪异的事：他的年轻妻子爱丽丝（莎拉·加顿 Sarah Gadon 饰）与他若即若离，只能在路上偶遇；一位中年女人（朱丽叶·比诺什 Juliette Binoche 饰）前来和他做爱然后告知他艺术品信息；人民币持续升值令他眼睁睁看着财产损失，车窗外的曼哈顿逐渐陷入一场暴乱，还有人在追踪他，似乎想要杀死他。攻击从一个蛋糕上升到子弹，空气中的一切充满恐慌和末世感，如期抵达理发店的帕克也想知道这混乱的一天该如何结束……

　　Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a Senate committee to help investigate Gates. Raven, seeking Gates for revenge, meets Ellen on the train; their relationship gradually evolves from that of killer and potential victim to an uneasy alliance against a common enemy.