Etiennette Muse

The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire's 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme.

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

She's working in a big store, he's a typographer and they lost their winning lottery ticket.