电影讲述了一对犹太恋人，在集中营被拆散后，女子遭到纳粹军官的**。（军官的演员是个有着冰蓝眼睛的英俊男人，不仅眼神冷酷，声音也冷酷，简直要把人冻到冰窟里。）不过，也许是真的产生了某种感情，纳粹军官渐渐变得不那么残忍了，丢弃集中营时要进行屠杀，军官只救了这名女子。
战争结束后，女子独自抚养着和军官的孩子，那个年轻的孩子，有着温和俊美的脸庞，和稍带孩子气的嗓音。女子的恋人找到了她，这对情侣拒绝指证仍然堂皇地活着的纳粹军官，为了孩子。

Because of their "new money" background, four American girls have difficulty breaking into the upper-crust society of New York. Laura Testvalley, the governess of one of the girls, suggests a London season and thus the young women set sail for England and the unsuspecting English aristocracy. In England, all the girls soon find eligible husbands and the youngest girl, Nan, seems to land the best husband of them all: the handsome and very wealthy Julius, Duke of Trevennick. Nan and Julius meet for the first time in a ruin, which is an indication of where their marriage is soon heading. After the nuptials, Julius seems more interested in clocks and stable boys than Nan's happiness, and all the girls soon discover that English upper-class men are not at all what they expected and hoped for.

安徒生（克瑞恩·比尤 Kieran Bew 饰）只身一人来到哥本哈根，希望能够在这里闯出一片属于自己的天地。安徒生希望能够成为一名演员，无奈却屡屡碰壁。心灰意冷的他身无分文流落街头，遇见了一个卖火柴的小女孩。他将小女孩的遭遇编成一个故事，哪知道这个故事被口口相传很快便家喻户晓。
克利伯爵在从故事里发现了安徒生的才华，决定出资送他去学习深造。期间，安徒生一直和伯爵的女儿耶特（Emily Hamilton 饰）保持着书信往来，随着时间的推移，耶特深深的爱上了安徒生。然而，安徒生喜欢的却是女歌剧家珍妮（芙萝拉·蒙戈马利 Flora Montgomery 饰），无奈之下，耶特只能忍痛割爱，祝福他们两人。

Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her.

本剧赢得了英国学院电视奖最佳连续剧奖,并被评为100个最了不得的英国电视节目之一.

A word for word depiction of the life of Jesus Christ from the Good News Translation Bible as recorded in the Gospel of John.