A história de um artista que está em decadência, cuja fase de glória está sendo roubada por estrelas emergentes do rock. Forçado a aceitar tarefas cada vez mais obscuras, como se apresentar em bares falidos e festas no jardim, ele conhece uma jovem fã que muda sua vida para sempre.

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".

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.

Um homem misterioso é o único passageiro desembarcando de um trem num sonolento vilarejo francês. Seu nome é Milan, um criminoso que pretende assaltar o banco local. Em sua chegada, ele é recebido por Manesquier, um professor de poesia aposentado. Através de uma inesperada amizade, os dois percebem que tiveram a oportunidade de rever suas próprias vidas, repletas de ousadas esperanças e sonhos não realizados. Ao mesmo tempo, ambos têm a momentânea chance de explorar o caminho não escolhido.

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 é um camionista que faz a travessia da Europa a África e vai regularmente a Tânger onde se encontra a sua amante Sarah e o seu amigo Said. Pela primeira vez, Serge vai ceder à tentação do tráfico de droga enquanto Said vive com uma ideia fixa – passar clandestinamente para a Europa e descobrir o mundo.

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...