John Alexander’s wife, Helen, has left him for her lesbian lover. As she speeds away from their mansion for the last time, her Jaguar explodes and she is killed. As the weeks pass, police detectives begin to suspect Helen’s death to be murder with John as a prime suspect. Still devastated by the loss, John slips into a deep depression until he views a recently made lesbian porn film that appears to feature his dead wife! He becomes obsessed with finding the woman in the film and his search propels him into the sleazy porno underworld of drugs and mobsters, with the police detectives one step behind him.

　　影片由奥斯卡·罗勒根据由他自己创作的小说《出身》改编成电影。故事的时间跨度从二战结束后的1949年一直延续到80年代，讲述了联邦德国一个家庭祖孙三代人的故事。罗伯特·弗赖塔格(雷纳德·施莱舍)的祖父埃里希(约根·沃格尔)，一个战俘，在逃亡中将自己的妻子托付给另一个女人。罗伯特的父母，作家诺拉和罗尔夫，因一场桃色事件而相互折磨，并为了追求自我实现和自由恋爱而走向毁灭。罗伯特自己，在祖父母充满安全感的家庭和68年代被压抑的生活间成长，一直在艰难地寻找属于自己的幸福。by:yakubd.cc

　　This is a brilliant surrealistic film.
　　But also a fully realistic story about a time when the brave avant-guarde artists were trying to explore the unknown landscapes of human possibilities.
　　The contrast between two realities: the poor village and the dadaist artists is shown very smart and brings the possibility of changing the world by the art.
　　Unfortunately, that progressive ideals of making the world better by revealing new areas of imagination, that ruled in the first half of XX century, were crushed by the war.
　　And, the tragedy finishes: the artistic ideals are dead, international art brotherhood also, but, as a real disaster: Yugoslavia is also dead, as a country, but as an artistic vision of nation's brotherhood, too.
　　So, the art falls apart

　　一个成功的侦探小说家卷入了一起绑架案，并发现了政客和黑手党之间存在的腐败。马克·维吉尔的第一个特点是挖掘隐藏在表面后面的是什么。