A young provincial college boy likes the daughter of the headmaster. However, his colleague, who wanted to die, left a diary where he wrote about his good luck with the same girl.
After working successfully as an actor in France during the 1930s, Eric von Stroheim, in common with such French actors and directors as Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier, moved to Hollywood after the outbreak of WWII. He left behind such memorable movies as Les Disparus de St Agil, La Grande illusion, Têmpete (the last to be shown) and L’Alibi which h...
故事发生在1870年的法国，普鲁士军队攻占了鲁昂城，十个来自不同阶级的陌生人坐上了同一辆马车踏上了逃亡的旅途，其中有位高权重的议员夫妇，省议会议员贝尔伯爵，民主党人科尔尼代等人，其中，一个名叫羊脂球（米切林内·普雷斯利 Micheline Presle 饰）的女子显得和大家格格不入，因为从打扮和言行举止来看，她都无疑是一名妓女。
当大家得知了羊脂球的身份后，纷纷对她十分的鄙视，甚至出言不逊大肆嘲讽，然而随着时间的推移，大家的肚子渐渐饿了起来，只有羊脂球带了足以她一人享用三天三夜的食物。在这个紧要关头，羊脂球慷慨的将自己的食物分给了马车里的众人。
