俄裔哲学家、心理学家露·安德烈亚斯-莎乐美寡居在纳粹德国，一位年轻学者的到访令她回想起自己的过往，圣彼得堡的求学生涯、青年时期的成就与爱情一一浮现在眼前。本片是哲学家莎乐美的传记电影，用交叉剪辑的方式将她生命中最重要也最富传奇色彩的三个时段呈现出来，连接这些片段的线索则是明信片，角色被放置于静态的景物和人物之间，宛若行在画中。

约翰大公是奥地利皇帝弗朗西斯一世的兄弟，他代表哈布斯堡王朝在施提利亚省进行了一次非正式访问，期间他爱上了安娜·普洛克。

Set in 1900s Vienna, the city is a hot bed of philosophy, science and art that are keenly debated in its coffee houses. Psychoanalysis, pioneered by Sigmund Freud, is capturing the city’s imagination, but is still in its infancy, and is viewed with a mixture of excitement and suspicion. Max Liebermann (Matthew Beard) is a brilliant protégé of Freud, who comes into contact with ...

Follows 41-year-old Christine on her quest for happiness. Together with her husband and her teenage daughter, she goes on holiday on the beautiful island of Ischia. There she finds herself having an identity crisis due to the arrival of the long lost love of her youth and her lover and his wife.