故事发生在五十年代中期,身为夜总会里的当红头牌,温柔美艳的罗拉(芭芭拉·苏科瓦 Barbara Sukowa 饰)每日都过着灯红酒绿纸醉金迷的糜烂生活。舒克尔(马里奥·阿多夫 Mario Adorf 饰)是一个腰缠万贯的地产大亨,他还有着另一个身份——罗拉的情夫,罗拉甚至为他诞下了一个小女儿。 博姆(阿明·缪勒-斯塔尔 Armin Mueller-Stahl 饰)的出现给舒克尔的事业带来了很大的威胁,为了打击这一对手,舒克尔决定利用罗拉。没想到,博姆的腼腆和善良竟然让久经沙场的罗拉动了真情,而对于罗拉的真实身份,博姆一无所知,还以为她是正直本分的良家妇女,一段注定要以悲剧为终结的恋情就此展开。Ten years after the war, West Germany's market economy is booming. Into an unnamed city that's rife with corruption comes a new building commissioner, Herr von Bohm, committed to progress but also upright. He's smitten by Marie-Louise, a single mother who's his landlady's daughter. Von Bohm does not realize she is also Lola, a singer at a bordello and the mistress of Schuckert, a local builder whose profits depend on von Bohm's projects. When von Bohm discovers Marie-Louise's real vocation and looks closely at Schuckert's work, will this social satire play out as a remake of "Blue Angel," a visit of Chekhov to West Germany, or an update of Jean Renoir's "Rules of the Game"?