身材性感长相美艳的珍娜（艾曼纽·贝阿 Emmanuelle Béart 饰）是周遭邻里公认的美女，然而，在和身为军人的丈夫路易（丹尼尔·奥图 Daniel Auteuil 饰）结婚没多久，战争便爆发了，为了保护国家，路易义不容辞地踏上了征程，留得珍娜一人独守空闺，时间久了，寂寞难耐的珍娜同一位名叫马西亚（加布里埃尔·巴里利 Gabriel Barylli 饰）的英俊男子展开了一段不伦之恋。 战争结束之后，路易回到了珍娜身边，大度的他原谅的珍娜的出轨，并和她一同搬往了远离是非之地，企图重新回归平静的生活。然而，正当两人的感情重新热烈燃烧之时，战争的再度降临和情人的意外回归将这个家庭又一次推向了风口浪尖。Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
