Ett slumpartat möte leder till att två män som tycks vara varandras raka motsats, inleder en oväntad vänskap och byter liv med varandra. Den kriminelle Milan åker till en liten fransk stad för att råna en bank. Där möter han läraren och poeten herr Manesquier, som erbjuder honom att bo i sitt hem under vistelsen. Snart finner de två motsatta karaktärerna att de kunde varit lyckligare i den andres liv.

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".

En kringresande illusionist i slutet av sin brokiga karriär. En flicka med en hel värld framför sig. Två livsöden som korsas i en fantastisk berättelse om livets magi, upptäckter och skeden.

A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

A businessman convicted of a white-collar crime becomes a changed person upon his release from prison.

June, 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte, surrounded by enemies, is about to play his definitive part in history. He has spent his whole life creating a mystique, becoming synonymous with determination, strength and mystery. But, that whole super-leader trip is smothering him and he just can't stand it anymore. Meanwhile, one of his aides, le maréchal Hugo Armani, has only one dream: to emulate the man who is his idol, his emperor. Armani picks the battle of Waterloo as the moment for his borderline psychotic attack - the first case of Napoleonic delirium in modern psychiatry. Due to the shortage of maréchals at the moment, Napoleon's got no choice: he has to leave Armani in command. Unbalanced Armani, so unexpectedly promoted, now leads the troops of France.

Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks Félix to prove his love for her by murdering a man he does not know...

Eva och Kent ska gifta sig men det hela föregås av möhippa och svensexa som sätter relationen på hårda prov. Och själva bröllopsfesten ska också bli en rejält omtumlande tillställning för alla inblandade, från brudpar till släkt och vänner.

Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. She has refused to have anything to do with him since her mother’s death and intends to join her brother in Canada. Serge appeals to Sarah’s protector, a young Arab named Saïd, to allow him to meet up with Sarah, promising in return to smuggle Saïd into Europe...