日冲（井浦新 饰）曾经遭遇过一场可怕的车祸，虽然所幸保住了性命，眼睛却落下了永久的后遗症，不能见光，只能终日带着墨镜。一副小小的墨镜将日冲和这个世界彻底的隔绝了开来，过去的事故使他的心灵上留下了深深的伤痕，他用冷漠和淡然武装自己，小心隐藏着感情，只因害怕悲剧重演。明美（麻生久美子 饰）是日冲的女友，两人一直保持着不咸不淡的关系。与此同时，日冲和明美的妹妹心美（宫崎葵 饰）亦有着说不清道不明的关系。某日，明美丧生于一场车祸之中，表面平静的日冲内心早已经崩溃。日冲和心美开着一辆蓝色的车，踏上了前往海边的旅途。

The Deserted Archipelago was my first independently directed and produced film. The film won the Grand Prix at the Nyon International Film Festival and garnered considerable attention both overseas and in Japan. The film follows an extremely simple story of a plain boy who matures into manhood while constantly manipulated by nuns. But woven into this narrative are my own experiences and the history of postwar Japan as well as a series of fantasies. The result is a multifaceted and multilayered objet, the birth of a newly sur-realistic filmmaking. On August 15th, the day the war ended, I was in the third year of primary school. That day, when the reality that I had known turned completely upside down, I was saddled with the trauma of no longer being able to believe in anything. Searching here and there for some kind of spiritual salvation, I finally found the existentialism of Albert Camus. From there, I was able to build up my own kind of existentialism and this film is best understood as based in that “Kanai Katsu Existentialism.” The film was praised by European film scholars Max Tessier and Tony Rayns and was screened as part of “Eiga: 25 Years of Japanese Film,” a special program at the 1984 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

韩国奥林匹克2连胜的主角-手球队最优秀的选手美淑（文素丽 饰），但是她奉献了全部力量的手球队却解散了，她放弃了如同生命全部的手球，为了谋生开始在一家大型超市内工作。曾经是日本著名职业手球队教练的慧京（金晶恩 饰）接替了处于危机的韩国手球国家代表队教练的位置尔重返韩国。为了增强球队的战斗力，她将自己的老同事兼竞争对手美淑以及过去一同经历奥运辉煌的老选手一一请回了球队。慧京刚开始为强化队员战斗力而进行了高强度的训练，但是她的这种训练方法造成了她和新队员们之间的不和，最终，老将们和新选手之间大打出手。对此协会委员长免除了慧京代理教练的职务，让世界知名的明星手球手安胜必（严泰雄 饰）来接替她的工作。尽管慧京的自尊心非常强，但是因为美淑的挽留，同时因为无法回到日本，所以她作为选手重新加入了手球队，为了荣誉而战。胜必决心把辉煌的选手生活抛在脑后，努力成为一名成功的教练。他坚实使用不照顾选手的科学计划以及欧洲式的训练方法，这激发了他与习惯韩国式手球的老将们之间的矛盾。最后由于和慧京的矛盾，美淑也离开了国家队...作为最优秀的队员的她们团结在一起，为了再次成为世界第一而踏上了前往雅典的征程。

本片剧情内容则采用回忆倒叙的方式，叙述美女贝儿回忆当初到城堡当囚犯时的第一个圣诞节，贝儿唤醒了城堡失去已久的欢悦感觉，使得城堡重新享受圣诞节庆的温馨，终于也让野兽重新体会人生的光明面，抛弃自私自立的心理，贝儿与野兽才彼此相知的情形。本片除电影原班人马演出之外，还多了三个新角色，包括名叫安吉利的圣诞树饰品娃娃、阴险的管风琴以及他的小跟班短笛等贝儿必须克服管风琴从中作恶，才能完成心愿使野兽重享圣诞节的欢欣。