19世纪浪漫主义时期的柏林。年轻的诗人海因里希相信爱情(克里斯蒂安·弗里德尔饰)能够战胜死亡,然而他无法说服自己的表妹玛丽同自己一起自杀。对此感到失望的海因里希把目标转向了亨丽埃特,一位商人的妻子。一开始,亨丽埃特对海因里希的想法感到不可理喻,然而当她发现自己身患不治之症之后,她的想法改变了。。1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,Emily's employer. It is an arrangement for them both - in James' case to stop the family home passing to James' cousin Alec Osborn and his Anglo-Indian wife Hester. However affection soon grows between m....。