Maria Vargas（艾娃·加德纳 Ava Gardner 饰）一个美丽、敏感、渴望爱情的西班牙女子，本在一家酒吧跳舞。被美国导演Harry Dawes（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）挖掘，带到好莱坞，成了万众瞩目电影明星。但她却与投资Harry电影的老板Kirk Edwards矛盾重重，后又和南美洲的富人Bravano纠缠不清。直到她遇见深爱她的那个男人——伯爵Vincenzo，两人终于结婚，但悲剧却无法避免。就如Vincenzo的家族格言一样：该来的，总会来。美人已逝，空留遗憾。
Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.
