Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and sea-side resort of his early adolescence, Louis, a seventy-eight-year-old man encounters Olivia, a nineteen-year-old girl madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate twenty-four-hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913. 眼高手低。我是女人吗？。 改编自奥地利小说家茨威格的作品，这部电影将背景分别设在1913、1936和2001年。一个78岁的老人路易斯回到赌场以及他小时侯的海边胜地，他遇上了奥利维娅，一个年仅19岁的小女孩，她迷上了一个暴戾的车夫。路易斯在回忆1913的时候与一个年轻的波兰女赌徒发生的“韵事”，与此同时，他也倾述了在1936年自己母亲与他的意大利籍网球教练的一段风流史，还有一个叫做马莉布朗的老寡妇曾经帮助过他自己度过难关的事件。
