二十七岁的马克(kè )斯（詹姆斯·斯派德 James Spader 饰）是一位事业有成的广告人，不久前，他的妻子不幸去世，至今，马克斯都未能走出丧妻的悲痛阴影中，个性也因此而变得封闭和阴沉。

菲儿为了引人注意，竟谎称(😑)时(shí )常(📢)盯着自(♉)己严加(🤞)看(kàn )管(♎)的父亲(🆙)是男朋(🎐)友(yǒu )，以至岛上的度假(jiǎ )者以为他是大色魔(mó )，弄出连篇笑话。

The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.。

美国女孩罗伦（戴安•琳恩 饰）随母亲改嫁来到了法国生活。

某日，他来到了一间小酒吧喝酒解闷，在这里，马克斯遇见了名为诺拉（苏珊·萨兰(📶)登 Susan Sarandon 饰）(💑)的四十(🦇)(shí )三岁(😮)女招待(⏯)。

The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate, and begins to suspect that his new manager has designs not only on his wife but on his business. Meanwhile, someone from the new manager's past shows up with information that could wreck his plans.。

他(tā )在(🕟)杀人现场受到强(qiáng )烈的刺激后，患有(yǒu )“逆行性遗忘症”。