A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won’t have to marry her father.

Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is really Anastasia. In the end the Empress must decide her claim.

A young man returns from Rome to his sister’s satanic New York apartment house.