In 1860 Paris, chemist Louis Pasteur is considered a quack within the medical community for advocating that doctors and surgeons wash their hands and boil their instruments to destroy microbes that can kill their patients. He came across this belief when
西哈诺（杰拉尔•德帕迪约 Gérard Depardieu 饰）生性狂野不羁，心地善良，他默默地爱慕着表妹罗克珊（安妮•波诺什 Anne Brochet 饰），但是他生来长着一个丑陋的大鼻子，纵使自己才华横溢，也不敢对表妹表明心迹。一天晚上他狠狠地嘲讽并且击败一个富家子之后，罗克珊约他次日见面。西哈诺写好情书后准备表明情愫之时，罗克珊却告诉他自己爱上了英俊的新兵克里斯蒂（文森特•佩雷斯 Vincent Perez 饰），并嘱咐在同一兵队的西哈诺保护他。克里斯蒂也喜欢着罗克珊，西哈诺便将自己对罗克珊的爱慕付
Chris is a dancer dying of AIDS. He has chosen euthanasia to end his suffering. With the assistance of his lover Val and his doctor, he surrounds himself in his last hours with everything that made his life special and creates his ultimate work of art by
