弗朗索瓦丝·罗赛

故事发生在第二次世界大战刚刚结束之际，卡罗尔（埃琳诺·帕克 Eleanor Parker 饰）和保罗（让-皮埃尔·奥蒙特 Jean-Pierre Aumont 饰）的外遇恋情被卡罗尔的丈夫沃尔特（比尔·特拉弗斯 Bill Travers 饰）发现了，沃尔特给了卡罗尔两个选择，要么和他一起前往位于中国的一个非常偏僻的村庄之中，那里霍乱横行，要么就离婚。最终，卡罗尔在无奈之中和沃尔特一起上路了。　　在中国，卡罗尔结识了自由不羁的提姆（乔治·桑德斯 George Sanders 饰），并且通过他在修道院里谋了一份差事，卡罗尔和沃尔特之间的感情也随着时间的推移而渐渐修复，一切都看似在往井井有条的方向发展，可是，在这个节骨眼上，沃尔特染上瘟疫去世了，与此同时，卡罗尔发现自己怀孕了。

Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them at first she takes her son abroad with an excuse and then has her grandson kidnapped making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.