A collection of stories by the author Frederic Raphael.
The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1952 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1976. Wikipedia
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin tries to keep his mistress, Georgie Hands, a secret, but Palmer's sister, Honor K...
Barnaby and Maxine Pierce’s son is getting married in California and they decide to drive across the country to attend. Along the way they reflect on their tattered relationship and the events that transpired to create the estrangement.
Three short stories come to the screen, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In "The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit," a businessman of about 40 plies a younger Leftist women with liquor aboard a train. They spend the night together, and he decides he's in love with her. She plays along. In "Dusk Before Fireworks," Kit, a y...
黛西（斯碧尔·谢波德 Cybill Shepherd 饰）拥有着美丽的面孔，和当时的女人们不同，她个性独立，向往着自由与奔放。在欧洲旅游的途中，黛西结识了名叫温特伯恩（Barry Brown 饰）的年轻男子，刚见面没多久，温特伯恩便被黛西的开朗和乐观深深地吸引了，两人之间的距离越来越近。
不幸的是，黛西和温特伯恩之间的感情遭到了后者姑母的强烈反对，她告诉温特伯恩，黛西的风评很差，是一个轻浮又放荡的薄情女子。刚开始，被爱情冲昏了头脑的温特伯恩并不相信姑母所言，但是，当他亲眼看到黛西和陌生男子出双入对之后，他终于在绝望中选择了离开。不久之后，黛西染上了不治之症，死前，她给温特伯恩写了一封信，直到这时，温特伯恩才发现黛西心中所隐藏的，对于自己那火热而又真挚的感情。
芭思西巴（朱莉·克里斯蒂 Julie Christie 饰）的叔叔一辈子没有结婚也没有后代，因此，芭思西巴成为了他的农场的唯一继承人。继承了农场之后，芭思西巴结识了在那里生活的奥克（阿兰·贝茨 Alan Bates 饰），奥克被芭思西巴的活力所吸引，深深的爱上了她。同样坠入了情网的，还有农场主伯德伍德（彼得·芬奇 Peter Finch 饰），但最终，芭思西巴选择了英俊的中尉特洛伊（特伦斯·斯坦普 Terence Stamp 饰），和他携手步入了婚姻的殿堂。
然而，婚后的生活并没有芭思西巴想象里的那么快乐，她和特洛伊的爱情很快就走到了尽头，在一场冲突中，伯德伍德开枪打死了特洛伊。
让路易公主（瓦莱莉·高利诺 Valeria Golino 饰）爱上了亚历山大伯爵，情投意合的两人很快就携手步入了婚姻的殿堂。婚后，让路易公主跟随着伯爵进入了皇宫，没想到国王十分中意公主活泼开朗的个性。伯爵的母亲明白，国王对公主的青睐能够替他们的家族换来无上的地位与荣耀，但对此一无所知的亚历山大伯爵依然沉浸在新婚的喜悦之中。
没过多久，让路易怀孕了，然而，这并没能够使国王对她的痴迷减少半分。最终，经过了权利和衡量，亚历山大伯爵亲手将自己最爱的女人送到了国王的身边，痴情的让路易心碎了，她决定通过国王来报复自私的伯爵一家人。
