In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and drag every young woman with German origins away from a small village and transport them to a Soviet labor camp where they are forced to work in the coal mines under inhuman conditions. This is where Irén,
亚历（文森特•佩雷斯 Vincent Perez 饰）快要结婚了。在他的观念中，一上床就意味着爱的结束。这都是因为小时候他看见妈妈不停更换性伴侣造成的阴影。当他看到舞姿动人的芳芳（苏菲•玛索 Sophie Marceau饰），心里燃起了真爱的火焰。亚历决定，他要追求芳芳，但不去涉及情欲。
芳芳也爱上了亚历，然而亚历和她完全是精神恋爱，令芳芳非常苦恼。亚历为了接近芳芳，住在她房间隔壁，装上单面玻璃观察芳芳每天的生活。看着她换上舞服、抬起舞步，做各种鬼怪的表情，却没有勇气打破二人的界限。这面玻璃，成了亚历的一
