The woman in red is Ana Cumpanas, a Romanian emigrated to the US, which facilitates the killing of her lover, the famous gangster John Dillinger in Chicago. After an adventurous life, the woman returns to die in her homeland.
En la Rumanía de 1925, la hermosa Marie-Therese Von Debretsy, casada con un capitán del ejército rumano, es seducida descaradamente delante de su marido en un baile de la alta sociedad por el Príncipe. Ante los celos del marido, éste pide el traslado a otra guarnición, así reasignan a la familia a un desolado y peligroso puesto avanzado en la frontera con Bulgaria.
Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery’s owner is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life. In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he’s sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
