年轻的工人阶级女性珍妮·沃伯尼尔（麦温 饰演）渴望文化和快乐，用她的智慧和魅力逐步爬上社会阶梯。她成为国王路易十五（约翰尼·德普 饰）的宠儿，路易十五并不知道她的妓女身份，通过她重拾了对生活的渴望，他们疯狂地坠入爱河。珍妮违背所有礼仪和礼节搬到凡尔赛宫，她的到来在宫廷中引起了轩然大波……

A young Saudi woman studying abroad returns to Jeddah, where she learns that her family has been shielding her from difficult truths.

When their father passes away leaving a large sum of money in the bank, two sisters put their differences aside and join forces against Sharia law, according to which their brother has the right to take double what they are entitled to.

Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, has constructed a loving film portrait of her father, and an elegy for a homeland to which they can never return—partly because it has changed so much, and partly because it was perhaps always more a concept than a reality.