茱莉亚（费·唐纳薇FayeDunaway饰）刚刚结束了一段失败的婚姻，为了排解心中的郁闷，她决定前往威尼斯，和朋友们待在一起。一次偶然中，茱莉亚在电视上看到了一位名叫瓦利瑞恩（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼MarcelloMastroianni饰）的工程师接受采访，茱莉亚回想起这正是曾经和自己有过一面之缘的那个男人。怀着激动之情，茱莉亚主动联络了瓦利瑞恩，和茱莉亚所想的一样，瓦利瑞恩是一位温文尔雅的绅士，随着接触的增加，两人之间燃起了热烈的爱情火花。然而，这段幸福时光并没有持续多久，在感情受到伤害的同时，茱莉亚惊闻自己换上了不治之症，绝望之中，她想到了自我了断。 Released in 1969, A Place for Lovers, as it came to be called, was a film that turned out to be an artistic disappointment to both Marcello and me. Though when I next saw De Sica in the spring of 1972 when he won the Best Foreign Film Oscar for The Garden of the FinziContinis, he argued otherwise. ''You see, Faye," he said, ''We were ahead of our time."