Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is delighted to learn she is a prostitute and has no idea she has more in mind than Hugo bargained for.

1991 film by Werner Schroeter

Late nineteenth century. Jarma is a small Asian kingdom that stands between the green of the rice paddies of Thai Samuthprakarn diamond crown beautiful tropical sea of French Indochina. For Maia, the young princess of Jarma, and Gabriel Barthes, the son of a French advisor their King. differences of race and class do not count. Instigated by the sweet wisdom of the monk Li, both young men are promised eternal fidelity. But the swirl of the separate colonial history of the cruelest form when a sinister character assassinate the brother of Maia.

安娜·卡露齐在圣诞晚宴，合家团聚时，偶尔听到丈夫和他的情妇打电话，才知丈夫早有外遇，愤而与他分手，带着儿子另觅新居。她参加了自己的家族制造、销售豪华游艇的公司，对父亲的管理方法提出了许多改进的建议，但没有被采纳。后来发现公司债台高筑，已濒临破产边缘，父亲又患心脏病，内外交困。在私生活方面，她结识了一位富有而吸引人的实业家赛吉欧，很快坠入情网。她想依靠赛吉欧的出谋划策来挽救自家的公司免于破产。
距离还债的日子一天天逼近了，安娜不得不向银行求助，但都碰了钉子。此时，她才发现正是男友赛吉欧在背后捣鬼，企图买下她的产业控制权，情急中安娜飞往德国，得到一项巨额信用贷款，保住了家族对产业的控制权。安娜家族产业越来越兴旺，但她的个人生活却接连遭到挫折，在一个个打击袭来时，是他弟弟的亲密朋友著名外科医生保罗向她伸出了友谊之手，两人经过磨难终于走到了一起