在这部黑眼睛喜剧/爱情/剧情片中,十九世纪末，在一条由意大利开往俄国的客轮上，意大利中年男子罗马诺向一个俄罗斯旅客讲述起自己的爱情经历以及此行的目的：罗马诺的妻子艾丽莎出身豪门，他们拥有富足奢华的生活，但他们的感情却始终濒临破裂。为了避开婚姻的困扰，罗马诺跑到俄国旅游散心，在一处温泉他结识了俄国某官员的妻子安娜，两人一见钟情。罗马诺回国后与妻子离婚，现正准备到俄国与安娜团聚并厮守终身。但令罗马诺惊讶的是，这个俄罗斯旅客也给他讲了一个故事……
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife's opulent home to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman whose marriage is a horror. He pursues her into the Russian heartland and returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love. His amazed and appreciative Russian listener then narrates a shorter story.
《黑眼睛》：你的黑眼睛总出现在我的梦里。
