在过路收费亭工作的卢卡斯，为了打发上班时的无聊空闲，拿了一本希特勒的《我的奋斗》来看，结果这一举动却惹怒了一位大屠杀的幸存者。这使得随后卢卡斯真的开始认真研究二战时大屠杀的具体情形，在想象中重现那些悲惨事件。

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.