鲁斯(菲丽希缇·琼斯 Felicity Jones 饰)渴望成为一名律师,并且凭借着自己的努力考上了哈佛大学的法学院。在法学院里,鲁斯因为身为女性而遭到了来自各方面的歧视和压力,只有他的丈夫马丁(艾米·汉莫 Armie Hammer 饰)坚定的支持着妻子的选择,因为他明白,鲁斯充满了天赋和正义感。 马丁被查出患上了癌症,病愈之后,他带着孩子们前往纽约工作。为了能够和自己的家人们生活在一起,鲁斯向学校提出希望能够转去哥伦比亚大学完成学业,却被拒绝了。之后,鲁斯离开了哈佛,成为了罗格斯大学的法学教授,可即便她是这样的优秀,依然没有律师行肯聘用她,只因为她是一个女人。。一个年轻的拿破仑军官追踪一个神秘的女人而来到一个年迈男爵的城堡,在那里他发现这个女人是听命于一个老巫婆,其最终目的是迫使男爵自杀……
Roger directed for two days on a set left over from a previous production, and without a proper script. He hired Francis Coppola to write a script and finish the picture. After five weeks of shooting, Roger fired Francis, and hired me to finish the picture. Jack Hill was hired to write a new script with me. A lot of what Francis shot was thrown out, except for the stuff with the witch from WIZARD OF OZ. (Dorothy Newman), and I finished the picture in five days of shooting. All of the interiors are Roger's (with the exception of Francis's witch's lair), and most of the exteriors are mine. To the best of my recollection, and contrary to legend, Jack Nicholson did not direct any of the film.。