影片讲述知名滑雪选手凌风因一场事故，职业生涯陷入谷底，为了挽救自己热爱的事业，重返家乡回到起点，在一群青年雪友的帮助下，一边寻找恩师，一边找回初心与勇气，最终突破极限，破茧蜕变的故事。
故事设定在二战期间的巴黎，此时巴黎已被纳粹德国占领，霍夫曼先生因为自己的犹太人身份，不得不让家人先走并将自己的珠宝店托付给自己的下属梅西埃。但是人算不如天算，就在梅西埃与妻子布朗什入主珠宝店没多久，霍夫曼先生再次出现在珠宝店里。由此，三个人的命运纠缠在了一起。
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.
