记者保拉为了追求杀害男友里沙尔的真正凶手，来到了亚特兰提克城，这是一个深受美国文化影响的地方，之后出现了一大堆像唐纳德、里查德、维德马克、多丽斯.沟口……有着怪名字的怪人。保拉在追寻真相的过程中，还卷入了政治阴谋和黑帮事件中。

法国新浪潮电影大师戈达尔把美国好莱坞黑帮电影的所有元素用在这部非常刻意的政治恐怖片中，明显向该类型的大师萨缪尔?富勒、尼古拉斯?雷、霍华德?霍克斯等做了模仿式的致敬，片中还涉及许多真实的政治背景和暗杀事件。整部影片虽然显得情节荒唐，较为做作，但导演通过流行音乐（其中一首是《北非碟影》中的“时光流逝”）、广告插画、气氛处理等方法展现深受美国流行文化影响和主导下的法国社会景象。以《美国制造》为标志，戈达尔的政治批判意识进入其后期阶段。他将电影的叙事惯例当作现实政治在电影艺术门类中的主要表现而加以痛烈的反对。为此，他对电影的表现手段进行了极富挑战性的探索。

Superstitious new rich find that they will be thirteen at the table. To reassure themselves, they invite a piano tuner, named Gonzague, whom they pretend to be Prince Gonzague to their guests. One of them imagines that Gonzague is his wife's lover.

Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events that shaped the years 1900 to 1950. Complementing the vintage film clips are three dramatized sketches, delineating the romantic customs of three different points in time. These sketches are inadequately performed, and can easily be ignored. Ce Siecle a 50 Ans both preserved and provided celluloid material for scores of future documentaries.

Since the car accident that caused the death of his wife, the comics author Stéphane Destouches sinks into alcohol and wanders the roads of Morocco.