露西（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）过着令旁人羡慕的生活，她是富商查尔斯（米歇尔·皮寇利 Michel Piccoli 饰）的情妇，在经济上自然没有任何的压力，可谓是想要什么都能够得到。可是，这样富裕的生活带给露西的只有无尽的空虚，毫无人生意义的她非常艰难的控制着自己不跌入抑郁的深渊之中。
一次偶然中，露西邂逅了名为安东尼（罗杰·范·胡尔 Roger Van Hool 饰）的男子，虽然安东尼一穷二白，但他的出现让露西干涸的心灵得到了爱情的滋润。可是，挥霍无度的日子过惯了的露西真的能够忍受跟着安东尼粗茶淡饭吗？在利益和真情面前，露西必须做出选择。

Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.