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.

琼（凯瑟琳·特纳 Kathleen Turner 饰）是一名小说家，创作过许许多多充满了冒险和刺激的故事，销量十分可观。可是尽管如此，琼自己的生活却向来四平八稳波澜不惊，在内心里，她十分希望能够和自己笔下的主人公那样，来一场奇遇。　　机会很快就来临了，某日，琼收到了一封来自哥伦比亚的来信，原来，琼的姐姐伊莱恩（玛丽艾伦泰勒 Mary Ellen Trainor 饰）被宝石大盗艾拉（Zack Norman 饰）和纳尔夫（丹尼·德维托 Danny DeVito 饰）绑架了，他们所要的并非赎金，而是一张藏宝图。心急如焚的琼立刻启程赶往哥伦比亚。在那里，琼结识了英明神武胆识过人的男子杰克（迈克尔·道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰），两人结伴继续前进。

A professional thief with $40 million in debt and his family's life on the line must commit one final heist - rob a futuristic airborne casino filled with the world's most dangerous criminals.