В Лос-Анджелесе злодеи похищают маленькую дочь китайского консула, которую в Гонконге учил кунг-фу инспектор Ли. Консул вызывает Ли в Америку, чтобы тот принял участие в освобождении девочки. Агенты ФБР обратились к полиции с просьбой выделить им самого никчемного сотрудника, чтобы тот взял китайца на себя и не позволял ему вмешиваться в их дела. Им оказывается самый болтливый полицейский Картер. Естественно, после ряда разногласий и недоразумений они объединяют усилия и всерьез берутся за вызволение заложницы.
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
В Европе война, в Мексике - Сиеста. Джеффри Фримен - британский консул, проводит очередной день полный пустоты и алкоголя. И тут в его будни входят сводный брат-идеалист и бывшая жена Ивонна, каждый из которых что-то ждет от Джеффри.
Marcus Valerius, a young consul, is assigned the mission to assist Menecrate, the leader of the Pretorian Guard, in the arrest and execution of as many Christians as possible. While raiding the Catacombs he has the surprise to find among the Christians the woman he loves, Giulia, who has been converted secretly to the banned religion. He helps her to escape and trouble soon follows. Stripped of his rank and arrested for defending the rebels he is condemned to fight as a gladiator...
Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.
The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.
A mysterious consul, blessed with the power to hypnotise, manages to push young women to suicide to cash in their insurance, without having their blood on his hands. At the death of his sister, a young detective decides to hold an investigation into this curious character, at the risk of falling into the trap himself... Oktavijan Miletić considered to be the father of Croatian cinema, was one of the pioneers of avant-garde cinema in Croatia and shows this once again in this film.