Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.

The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.

A successful and married, although not quite young, stage actress falls for a young man, who is involved with a young actress who uses him to advance her career and upstage the leading lady.

A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?

德克·博加德饰演数学天才塞巴斯蒂安，他得到英国政府的工作，负责解码。但也因此爱上美丽的同事，让他们的办公室恋情更显复杂。

Based on the novel by Thomas Mann. Charlotte Kestner, the love of Goethe's youth, became famous because she was the real-life Lotte represented in his renowned The Sorrows of Young Werther. At forty-four years of age she travels to Weimar to see Goethe again. The posturing of high society and Goethe's personal history lead her to an unexpected conclusion. Dramaturge (later Studio Director) Walter Janka was befriended by the Thomas Mann family, making this adaptation possible.