In the early 1970s, a beautiful young British woman (Kate Wince Lace) with her two young daughters escapes from a broken marriage and crosses the sea to Morocco, North Africa. Courageous and adventurous, she is full of ideals and hopes, looking forward to opening another window of life for herself and her daughters in a foreign land. Although the two naïve daughters are full of surprises and imaginations about Morocco, which is rich in folklore, the increasingly embarrassing real life makes Kate Winsleigh feel the friendliness of Moroccans at all. Just as she began to feel distracted by the journey of her life, he met his charming North African lover.
Jean-Marc Barr grew up on the coast of Greece, and although he watched his father die in a diving accident as a child, he did not cut jack's love of the sea. When Jack's friend Enzo (Jean Reno) finds him and persuades him to enter the Diving Championship Competition, Jack agrees, winning the championship with outstanding results and getting the love of Joanna (Rosanna Arquette). The two fight fiercely, but Jack realizes that he can't put it down and can't leave the sea.
Carmen (Maruschka Detmers) finds his uncle Godard (Jean-Luc Godard), who is hospitalized in hospital, and asks him for a villa by the sea on the pretext of filming a movie with friends. Godard is in a grotesque state, staying in the hospital looking forward to being sick while writing, and at the same time longing for a chance to make a film, he agrees to Carmen's request. Carmen meets police officer Joseph during a bank robbery, and the two fall in love with each other after a fight.
After the death of her mother, the "Yuandu" maiden, who was originally living in a paradise regarded by a large number of foreign immigrants as a gold rush, was sent to the prostitute Guliguo (Zhuo Na), and after the girl was temporarily taken in, Guliguo named her Phoenix Butterfly (Itobu) based on the butterfly tattooed on her chest. Soon, under the leadership of Gu Liguo, Feng Di met "Yuan Thieves" from different countries such as Huo Feihong and Wolf Lang in the waste resettlement area and auto repair station named "Qingkong", and gradually became friends with them.
After a quarrel with her husband in Café Baghdad, a plump German woman stays alone in a motel that also runs a café. The insulated high-pressure kettle left behind during the quarrel, filled with coffee, followed her and became the first prop of the magic.
"My Own Idaho" Mike (Revan Phoenix) and Scott (Keanu Reeves) are both male prostitutes who have fallen into the streets, but because of the huge difference in family backgrounds, they are not "tacit" on the surface.
The fate of ordinary people in "City of Sorrows" is always negligible in the face of the vigorous times. Individuals, if they bravely stand up and try to stop the torrent of the times, are more or less like Don Quixote who struggled to pounce on the windmill, often only as a martyr, and more often, individuals do not even have the right to choose to be bystanders. But the tragedy of ordinary people can undoubtedly illuminate the absurdity and cruelty of history.
The Dead Poetry Society Wilden Preparatory College is known for its calm and dignified teaching style and high promotion rate, and as a student of its graduating class, the ideal is to enter a prestigious school. The arrival of john Keating (Robin Williams), a new semester literature teacher, is like a spring breeze, contrary to the serious stereotypes of traditional elite schools.