艾伯特（Åke Grönberg 饰）的全部身家性命都赌在了自己苦心经营的马戏团上面了，狠狠尽管生意日益惨淡，狠狠但他并没有产生放弃的念头，他决定用一场盛大的演出来振奋团里的士气。带着自己的情人安妮（哈里特·安德森 Harriet Andersson 饰），艾伯特来到了一个名叫舒伯格（甘纳尔·布耶恩施特兰德 Gunnar Björnstrand 饰）的男人处，希望能够向他借一些演出用的服装。艾伯特去看望分别已久的妻子阿格达（Annika Tretow 饰）和孩子们，并表示了想要留在家中安度晚年的愿望，没想到遭到了拒绝，不久之后，艾伯特又发现安妮和同事弗朗斯（哈塞·埃克曼 Hasse Ekman 饰）之间的私情。好在马戏团的演出获得了成功，生活即便残酷，但日子还是一天天的慢慢流走了。
回复 :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
回复 :受熊坂虎吉（若山富三郎 饰）推荐，绯牡丹阿龙（富司纯子 饰）前往名古屋拜会西之丸一家，继续自己的修业之旅。西之丸控制着神宫一带的博采行业。而金原一家的组长金原铁之助（小池朝雄 饰）则与议员古田（内田朝雄 饰）勾结，觊觎赌博放款人的位置。西之原一家头目杉山的儿子次郎（石山律 饰）和金原的女儿八重子（柴田美保子 饰）相恋，但受到金原的反对。龙子协助二人逃跑，被金原家的食客花冈（高仓健 饰）截住。花冈得知缘由，放二人离去。金原怀恨在心，对阿龙和杉山展开报复……
潘安邦
回复 :A meditation on the elemental bonds of family told through portraits of four Syrian families in the aftermath of war.
