A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

故事发生在20世纪30年代的上海，托德（拉尔夫·费因斯 Ralph Fiennes 饰）是一位生活和事业都陷入了瓶颈的外交官，整日混迹于欢场和酒馆之间。刚刚来到这里的时候，托德也有过宏大和高远的理想，但渐渐失去的视力和复杂的权谋争斗让他无法再在职业的道路上前进下去。 在一家夜总会里，托德结识了名叫索菲亚（娜塔莎·理查德森 Natasha Richardson 饰）女子。索菲亚曾是声名显赫的伯爵夫人，如今却沦为艳舞女郎，为了抚养十岁的女儿，她甚至不得不出卖自己的肉体。就是这样境遇相同的两人，不断的相互吸引着。不久之后，日侵华战争全面爆发，而此时，托德才发现了自己压抑已久的对于索菲亚的强烈爱意，这对心心相印的男女最终能否终成眷属呢？

When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.