I en verden der ingenting er hva det ser ut til å være, møtes en illusjonist og en politiinspektør i en kamp for å avgjøre hvor virkeligheten slutter og magien begynner... mens linjene mellom makt og korrupsjon, kjærlighet og hengivenhet, vaktsomhet og mani, og liv og død, blir stadig mer uklare.
Syke og uberegnelige dronning Anne mister grepet om et kongerike i krig, og hennes nærmeste fortrolige konkurrerer med en slu og ung rival om oppmerksomheten hennes.
Hertuginnen av Devonshire var en vakker sosietetskvinne med politisk innflytelse i 1700-tallets England. Men i privatlivet var hun preget av et kjærlighetsløst ekteskap og opprivende utroskap.
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
General Montriveau, having returned from the Napoleonic Wars in despair, quickly becomes enamored with Duchess Langeais. Across a series of nocturnal visitations, the Duchess mercilessly toys with her hot-tempered suitor, as the machinations of a shadowy conspiracy unfold in the background.
The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a crooked gambling racket, and who sets sail on an ocean liner that also carries inept scoutmaster Freddie Hunter and his troop of boys. Freddie, who's been a "boy scout" too long, has designs on gorgeous Duchess Alexandria. The boys, far better organized than Freddie, are determined to save him from himself. But who will save Freddie from being the killer's next victim?
The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.