故事发生在初春的澳门。40 多岁，失婚、不善言辞的马达(张继聪饰)居住在准备迁拆的老房子，他患有严重的失眠症，无法入睡的他通过当夜间的士司机来排解失眠的痛苦。一天晚上马达接上了早上当酒楼知客，晚上当啤酒女郎的莲娜(周秀娜饰)，两人因误会成为朋友，马达更当上了莲娜上下班的专用司机。莲娜的出现令马达的生活多了一点色彩，甚至开始认为自己走出失婚的伤痛。在澳门，莲娜是寂寞的，身边的同事都不喜欢她，认为她就是一个很爱钱，不择手段的女人，因为她总是用上天赐予的性感身材去换取特殊待遇。莲娜心知马达的爱意，只是莲娜背后埋藏著一段未能释怀的过去⋯⋯

故事发生在初春的澳门。40 多岁，失婚、不善言辞的马达(张继聪饰)居住在准备迁拆的老房子，他患有严重的失眠症，无法入睡的他通过当夜间的士司机来排解失眠的痛苦。一天晚上马达接上了早上当酒楼知客，晚上当啤酒女郎的莲娜(周秀娜饰)，两人因误会成为朋友，马达更当上了莲娜上下班的专用司机。莲娜的出现令马达的生活多了一点色彩，甚至开始认为自己走出失婚的伤痛。在澳门，莲娜是寂寞的，身边的同事都不喜欢她，认为她就是一个很爱钱，不择手段的女人，因为她总是用上天赐予的性感身材去换取特殊待遇。莲娜心知马达的爱意，只是莲娜背后埋藏著一段未能释怀的过去⋯⋯

相识时，伊莲娜（娜齐达·马奇纳 Nadezhda Markina 饰）和弗拉基米尔（安德烈·斯米尔诺夫 Andrei Smirnov 饰）都已经步入中年，为了孤独的人生能有人陪伴，两人走到了一起。弗拉基米尔的经历和富有让他冷酷而又无情，面对丈夫如此糟糕的个性，由于贫穷而一直处于弱势地位的伊莲娜一直都默默的忍受着。 　　伊莲娜有一个不争气的儿子，游手好闲的他将伊莲娜当成了维持生计的主要经济来源，生活的压力让伊莲娜不堪重负，丈夫的财产成为了她的唯一希望。弗拉基米尔有一个和她一样无情的女儿，没想到，女儿的一次探望让弗拉基米尔做出了将遗产全部留给她的糊涂决定。唯一的希望眼看这就要破灭，伊莲娜的脑海里酝酿出了一个计划。

相识时，伊莲娜（娜齐达·马奇纳 Nadezhda Markina 饰）和弗拉基米尔（安德烈·斯米尔诺夫 Andrei Smirnov 饰）都已经步入中年，为了孤独的人生能有人陪伴，两人走到了一起。弗拉基米尔的经历和富有让他冷酷而又无情，面对丈夫如此糟糕的个性，由于贫穷而一直处于弱势地位的伊莲娜一直都默默的忍受着。 　　伊莲娜有一个不争气的儿子，游手好闲的他将伊莲娜当成了维持生计的主要经济来源，生活的压力让伊莲娜不堪重负，丈夫的财产成为了她的唯一希望。弗拉基米尔有一个和她一样无情的女儿，没想到，女儿的一次探望让弗拉基米尔做出了将遗产全部留给她的糊涂决定。

艾琳娜和她母亲早年一样从巴西赴美、欲在好莱坞发展创出一片天地。多年后，妹妹佩特拉带着仅有的些许线索去美国找她，最终却得到一个令人悲伤的答案……

讲述出生在巴西的伊莲娜追随母亲脚步，离开自己家乡前往美国希望能闯出一片天地。多年之后，她的妹妹带着寥寥无几的线索前往美国寻找姐姐，但答案却让她…

In the 1830's, the island of Quemada in the Antilles is a Portuguese colony - that is, until an English agent provocateur arrives and inspires the black slaves to rise and expel the colonial authorities. However, as is always the way with revolutions, a group of middle-class power brokers seizes political control and the people's aspirations are betrayed. 　　Ten years pass, and the sugar industry now requires peace and stability on Quemada. The continuing guerilla campaign by the dispossessed blacks is harming profits. The very same English adventurer is once more despatched to the island, this time to hunt down and eradicate the revolutionaries he created. 　　Marlon Brando plays Sir William Walker in his best Fletcher Christian English accent and a blonde wig with a life of its own. His is a thoughtful performance, putting across the complexity of the man, a character who is undoubtedly cynical and unscrupulous, but who is also an emotional man and something of a political philosopher. He is certainly effective at what he does. 　　The direction of Gillo Pontecorvo is somewhat erratic at times. There are points where the narrative is confused, and the gold robbery which drives the plot somehow got left on the cutting-room floor. Jose Dolores' rise to power is the most significant event in the story, but we see nothing of it. During the voodoo carnival, two of the participants are wearing 20th-century soccer shorts. The film's central pivot, the passage of ten years between Walker's two visits to the island, is handled very sketchily by means of a few incongruous London scenes and a voice-over narration. 　　But there are good things, too. When Santiago's widow hauls her husband's body away, the masonry of the fort stands as a silent metaphor of colonial power - harsh, overbearing and sterile. Brando has some fine speeches, musing on the nature of political legitimism. The fire scenes are visually arresting (though it would have sufficed to have two or three guerillas being shot as they emerged from the burning sugar cane: seven or eight is labouring the point), and Walker is positively luminous against the tortured black shapes of the charred forest, showing in symbolic form that this man thrives on the suffering of the blacks, and that destruction is his natural element.