A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce's "The Women". It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women - there are forty women in the play and no men.
史蒂夫（比尔·默瑞 Bill Murray 饰）是一名海洋纪录片导演，他的作品曾经为许多孩子的童年披上了梦幻的色彩。在一次拍摄中，史蒂夫的老朋友死于美洲虎鲨之口，这让史蒂夫深受打击，他发誓要找到虎鲨，为友报仇，并且将此作为新片的题材。在发布会上，史蒂夫遇见了自称是自己儿子的耐德（欧文·威尔逊 Owen Wilson 饰），他遂邀请这个年轻人加入他的创作团队。史蒂夫要面临的难题很多，资金短缺，和妻子的感情不和，并且，他所拍摄的纪录片已经渐渐的失去了吸引力。
一位名叫珍妮（凯特·布兰切特 Cate Blanc
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
