Brother and sister are driving through Kansas during their road trip. Suddenly, they hear calls for help coming. They stop to investigate and …

Director Arthur Hiller (Love Story, Silver Streak), working from screenwriter Edward Anhalt's (Becket) adaptation, transforms actor-playwright Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth into a film the Los Angeles Times dubbed, "daring, outrageous, utterly provocative, endlessly ambiguous and strikingly effective." 　　Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) benvolently rules his financial empire from a penthouse apartment overlooking Manhattan. Seemingly at the edge of sanity, Goldman holds forth on everyting from Papal edicts to ex-wives, from baseball to his family's massacre in a Nazi concentration camp. When Goldman remarks on a blue Mercedes continuously parked outside his building, Goldman's captive audience of assistant (Lawrence Pressman) and chauffeur (Henry Brown) dismiss their boss' anxiety as encroaching paranoia. But each of Goldman's passionate, seemingly capricious ravings are transformed into a shocking, inadvertent deposition when Israeli agents capture Goldman and put him on trial as Adolph Dorf, the commandant of the concentration camp where Goldman's family was supposedly exterminated. In a trial scene of unrelenting intensity, Academy Award© winner Schell (Judgement at Nuremberg) crafts what the Detroit Free Press called "a white-hot lead performance," mutating from eccentric Goldman to sociopath Dorf and beyond. The riddle of Dorf's true identity becomes wrapped in an enigma of cunning self-treachery and single-minded obsession. 　　Veteran cinematographer Sam Leavitt enables Hiller to coax a vividly personal and electrifying intelligent dual portrait out of Schell. The Man in the Glass Booth is a timeless drama of surprising intimacy and indefatigable courage, "possessing," declared the Los Angeles Times, "a remarkably resilient sense of lightness for all the profound questions it ponders."

自古以来，尤利乌斯·冯·塔里恩贵族家庭里的女人，总是会制造混乱和丑闻。最近一次，是尤利乌斯的妹妹，她17岁怀孕又和情人私奔，被家族取消了继承权。而从此妹妹巴利亚的名字就成了家庭里不名誉的象征和谈话的禁忌，直到她的女儿巴巴拉到来后，一切发生了变化。得知妹妹去世后，尤里乌斯十分难过，后悔当初没有劝说父亲把妹妹接回到家里。于是，所有的愧疚都化成了对巴巴拉的关爱。 　　虽然舅母和表姐玛利安娜对她的到来十分不满，但舅舅和表妹德里斯的关爱还是让巴巴拉感受到了久未得到的幸福。在这里，她还遇到了挚爱——克里斯蒂安，一个年轻有为的青年。二人度过了一段美好的时光，但很快，与克里斯蒂安即将离婚的妻子莉莉亚娜的出现破坏了两人刚刚建立起来的信任。在伤心之下，巴巴拉接受了表姐未婚夫莫尔卡的求爱，并与之私奔。 　　离家出走后的巴巴拉并不幸福，莫尔卡的小气和猜忌让她十分苦闷。为了维持日常的开支，她甚至卖掉了母亲留给她的项链。巴巴拉深知已经不可能再回到尤里乌斯家族，于是离开莫尔卡后独自回到曾经生活的意大利小镇。得知一系列变故，克里斯蒂安十分自责，劝说尤里乌斯接回巴巴拉。丑闻早已过去，大女儿玛利安娜也因为失掉了一场危险的婚姻，而找到了真正的真爱。 　　尤里乌斯不想再重复妹妹巴利亚当年的悲剧，于是决定亲自去小镇寻找侄女。经过一番促膝长谈，巴巴拉终于答应重新回到家族。舅妈及妹妹原谅了她犯下的错误，这让巴巴拉十分感动，幸福的生活又回来了。只是面对克里斯蒂安，巴巴拉还有些许遗憾。但克里斯蒂安不计前嫌，他依然还爱着巴巴拉，一切误会烟消云散，一对有情人终于又走到了一起。