著名男演员吉奥瓦尼回到故乡博洛尼亚，参加他孪生兄弟皮普的葬礼，皮普因为爱情的不幸而自杀，而家里人却告诉吉奥瓦尼的死因是个意外事故。但问题是皮普生前的未婚妻——瓦达，她并不打算在葬礼上露面。在家庭晚餐上，瓦达告诉吉奥瓦尼，皮普生前留下了一封短信……

How can a woman love a man without denying herself? Can two women love the same man without tearing each other apart? Can a man love two women without lying? What dilemmas will families and friends of the parties involved have to endure? To this day these are recurring and often painfull questions.

面包店助手泰柯（吉亚科莫·费拉拉 饰）厌倦每天一成不变的生活。一日，他在屋顶上吸烟休息时，目睹一只奇怪的海鸥从天而降坠落，泰柯受好奇心驱使出发调查，途中遇见了修女、一群戴面具的小孩、废墟里的养蜂隐士、都市裸体主义者、与美丽的降落伞冒险家史黛拉（奥里莉亚·波伊莱尔饰），不寻常的事件接二连三发生，泰柯彷彿置身于电玩游戏，穿越一道道关卡，这是他逃离日常束缚的开始，在罗马如迷宫般的屋顶上，充满奇遇的华丽冒险就此展开！

1970年是法斯賓達的電影人生中最多產的一年，單是劇情長片便拍了不下六部風格、類型、題材等皆各異的作品，而黑色喜劇《小心聖妓》便是其一。但對影迷來說，也許更重要的是此片乃法斯賓達自認最好的個人作品。雖然影片的名字像極與妓女有關，不過故事內容卻是另一回事。它主要講述一群苦候拍攝電影的人，因導演失蹤、器材不見，唯有在冠冕堂皇的西班牙酒店內有如行屍走肉四處飄浮，直至導演出現，大家才抖擻精神。怎料導演忙於拍攝之餘，更要落力應付各方滋事份子，令他疲於奔命，最後他還要面對巨大的財政壓力，而各位演員也開始鼓譟起來．．．此片無疑可說是導演的個人寫照，透過自嘲、黑色幽默等手法諷刺片場如地獄，不過更值得注意的是此片的混雜風格，既承接他早期的劇場化敘事，亦開其日後的通俗劇形式，可說是法斯賓達電影創作上的重要過渡作品。
1970 was the most prolific year for Fassbinder, he made six features of different style, genre and theme, and Beware of a Holy Whore was the director's personal favourite. Despite its title the film has absolute nothing to do with prostitution. With the director and equipment missing, a group of actors and crew can do nothing but to wait aimlessly inside a posh Spanish hotel. The director finally appears, but he is soon entangled with the trouble makers on the set and pressure from his financers; not before long, the actors are starting to get riotous…A black comedy and a satire of the movie set being "hell", a self-mockery on the perils of being a director. An important work where Fassbinder was making a transition from his early Brechtian style to more conventional narrative.

Source: 世界電影經典回顧 2006 節目二 - 德國電影新浪潮

A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child.

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.