杰克(乔治·克鲁尼 George Clooney 饰)是一名来自美国的战地记者,充满了鲜血和硝烟的一战结束后,杰克终于能够重新回到前线,报道波茨坦会议的相关新闻。不过,杰克此行还有另外一个十分重要的目的,那就是寻找与他曾经有过一段短暂情缘的德国女子莱娜(凯特·布兰切特 Cate Blanchett 饰)。奇迹般地,杰克和莱娜重逢了,之后,杰克得知莱娜那失踪已久的丈夫艾米尔(克里斯蒂安·奥利佛 Christian Oliver 饰)被卷入了复杂的政治斗争之中。 一名美国士兵被枪杀的案件让杰克意识到事情必有蹊跷,他几次想要调查,却遭到了军方的阻挠和警告。与此同时,杰克的好友帕特里克上尉(托比·马奎尔 Tobey Maguire 饰)所表现出的异常举动亦传达出了某些秘密的讯息。Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.