Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

在柏林工作的年轻人保罗·沃伊特（马提亚斯·施维赫夫 Matthias Schweighöfer 饰）有一份特殊的职业——专门帮已经不想爱的两个人分手。作为专业的分手专家，公司经常派遣他去全国各地了结感情纠葛。虽然保罗并不热爱自己的职业工作，但只要在两年内成功拆散1000对情侣，他就能得到晋升。于是保罗还是勉为其难地继续着这份“分手”工作。对于情侣分手时的各种过激反应，保罗早就习以为常了。但这次保罗要面对的客户可不那么容易解决，一位性情敏感又行为古怪的男子托托·库尔曼（米兰·佩斯彻尔 Milan Peschel 饰）让保罗简直濒临崩溃的边缘。阴差阳错的，陷入一片混乱中的保罗竟意想不到的遇见了他的真爱娜塔莉（凯瑟琳·德·林恩 Catherine de Léan 饰），从此保罗对于生活和爱情也有了新的认识。