阿娜伊丝•宁（Maria de Medeiros玛丽亚•德•梅黛洛 饰），银行家雨果（Richard E. Grant 饰）的妻子，一个外表雍容却沉迷于D. H. 劳伦斯文字的野性女子。在丈夫的介绍下，阿娜伊丝结识了外表颓废粗糙的小说家亨利•米勒（Fred Ward弗雷德•沃德 饰），她迷上了眼前这个睿智的男子，继而又为亨利的妻子琼（Uma Thurman 乌玛•瑟曼 饰）所吸引。 　　在琼的嘱托下，阿娜伊丝开始照料亨利的生活，为他的小说《北回归线》四处奔走，并由此衍生出一段段狂野激情的欢愉…… 　　本片获1991年奥斯卡最佳剧本提名。In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York trying to find acting jobs while Henry works on his first major work, "Tropic of Cancer," a pseudo-biography of June. Anais and Hugo help finance the book, but June is displeased with Henry's portrayal of her, and Anais and Henry have many arguments about their styles of writing on a backdrop of a Bohemian lifestyle in Paris.