小说家Stéphane Belcourt同意成为一款著名白兰地两百周年庆典的品牌大使，多年来第一次回到家乡。在那里，他遇到了初恋的儿子卢卡斯。回忆涌向了他：无法抑制的吸引力，身体在欲望的热量中融为一体，一种永远无法透露的激情……他初恋的名字叫托马斯。那时他们17岁。

　　April 2020 – Lockdown. Etienne, a film director, and his brother Paul, a music journalist, are confined together in their childhood home with their new partners Morgane and Carole. Every room, every object, reminds them of their childhood, and the memories of the absents - their parents, their neighbors…This compels them to measure the distance that separates them from each other and the roots they share, those of their ground zero. As the world around them is becoming increasingly unsettling, unreality, and even a disturbing strangeness, invades their daily gestures and actions.

　　Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie takes Frank/Frances into his home, and when he discovers her true identity, the two become lovers. He sends her to London to be trained by his mistress in the art of sex, but she learns much more about her identity as a woman. Before the opening credits, explicitly on-screen it reads: "Based on the famous Victorian erotic novel by an anonymous writer".

　　本片用一种现实与记忆穿插的方式勾勒了男主人公X（吉奥吉欧·艾伯塔基 Giorgio Albertazzi 饰）与女主人公A（德菲因·塞里格 Delphine Seyrig 饰）公剪不断理还乱的情感纠葛。X的记忆中对于巴洛克宫殿里的亭台楼阁如数家珍，在他的描述性旁白中，人们 得以感受到他内心巨大的波澜。在剧场舞台上，戏子正在表演着离愁别绪的桥段。观众席上X跟贵妇A对视良久。歇息之时，剧场响起舞曲，X向A邀舞，两人在近距离表达了对彼此的感受。A觉得这个X是个关注自己的陌生人，但是X却讲述了去年与她发生的一段鲜为人知的故事。期间，还穿插了X跟A丈夫M（莎查•皮托夫 Sacha Pitoëff 饰）游戏对决的场景……

　　“当子弹开花时他们共有二十三人，二十三个在这之前已献出真心的人，二十三个作为我们兄弟的外国人……”1955年，法国诗人阿拉贡曾为一群为法国献身的移民写下这样的诗句。时间回到1943年德军占领巴黎期间，在亚美尼亚诗人米萨克·马努尚（Missak Manouchian）的带领下，一群年轻的犹太人、匈牙利人、波兰人、罗马尼亚人、西班牙人、意大利人、亚美尼亚人结成了地下抵抗组织，决心为了解放他们所爱的法国而战斗。他们冒着生命危险，进行了多起针对纳粹及其傀儡的暗杀行动。很快，他们成为了纳粹的眼中钉，警方通过跟踪、检举、要挟以及严刑拷打等手段掌握并镇压了他们的行动。1944年2月21日，包括马努尚在内的22名男子和一名女子被判处死刑。这二十三人被纳粹称为“罪恶部队”，而其后他们的形象却随着一张张红色宣传单出现在全国的大街小巷，这些为了法国的自由而牺牲的外国移民最终成为了这个国家的传奇英雄。