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The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.
故事发生在1080年的西班牙,彼时的西班牙并没有统一,而是分为三个互不干涉彼此国家政务的小国。卢利歌(查尔登·海斯顿 Charlton Heston 饰)因为暗中放走了国王卡斯提尔下令处死的摩尔人酋长而遭到了国王的厌恶。在一场意外之中,卢利歌不小心杀死了未婚妻吉米娜(索 菲娅·罗兰 Sophia Loren 饰)的父亲,导致两人的情感破裂。 不久之后,卢利歌所在的国家遭到了别国的侵略,卢利歌奋起反击保护自己祖国领土的完整,最终将敌人击退。然而坏事成双,卡斯提尔的去世让两名王子阿尔福斯(约翰·弗拉瑟 John Fraser 饰)和桑科(加里·雷蒙德 Gary Raymond 饰)开始争夺王位,好不容易恢复的和平再一次遭到破坏。
一个被埋藏的秘密,正准备被揭开。失踪多年的凯蒂突然回来,但回来的,真的还是原本的她吗?那些看似“好转”的变化,其实,是另一种腐败的开始。