세월이 흘러갈수록 설 자리를 잃어가는 일루셔니스트는 자신이 설 수 있는 무대를 찾아 이곳 저곳을 떠다닌다. 그러던 어느 날 스코트랜드의 한 선술집에 머물며 공연을 하다 그곳에서 앨리스라는 한 소녀를 만나게 된다. 일루셔니스트의 무대에 반한 어린 소녀 앨리스는 다음 무대를 찾아 떠나는 일루셔니스트와 함께 여행을 나서고 뒤이은 그들의 모험은 그들의 삶을 완전히 바꾸어 놓는다.

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".

청각장애인 비서 칼라는 감옥에서 갓 나온 폴을 우연히 만난다. 폴은 아무것도 할 수 없는 무능력하지만 술수에 능한 사람이고, 반면에 칼라는 정직하게 자신의 일에 최선을 다하는 성실한 사람. 바텐더로 일하게 된 폴은 어느 날 마피아 조직의 음모를 눈치채게 되고, 칼라에게 멀리서 망원경을 통해 무슨 이야기가 오고 가는지를 살펴보기를 부탁한다. 그러면서 폴과 칼라는 서로에게 빠져들게 되고, 사건의 소용돌이 속으로 걷잡을 수 없이 빨려 들게 된다.

A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

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

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.

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.

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...

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...