影片讲述了女主人公娜娜（安娜·卡里娜 Anna Karina饰）如何从一名普通售货员走上卖淫道路的悲情一生。娜娜厌倦了售货员的生活，想要成为一名演员，可命运却让她陷入了出卖肉体的色情深渊。她越是深入生命的深刻意义，越是怀疑生活的本来面目。命运辗转，就在她终于遇见她的爱人 时，命运又再一次跟她开了场玩笑，死在了皮条客的枪下。看似凌乱毫无关联的章节，充满哲理如呓语般的台词，为了“拯救灵魂而出卖肉体”么？影片抛掷给我们的又岂止是这一个问题。
It tells the story of how Octavio and Adela were born on the same day: 14 April 1931, but in opposing families. Over the next 90 years their lives will intertwine, through intense encounters and misunderstandings, in eight episodes told in sequence shots.
When Danny, a guilt-ridden engineering geologist in transit to her remote Russian assignment survives a mysterious helicopter crash, she must try to escape the harsh environment. But she is not alone.
