影片取材自同名小说，以二战为背景的奥德赛传奇，穿越多个时空和幻想场景。经Glenn Gould授权，该片采用了他演奏的巴赫音乐。Plot Summary forSlaughterhouse-Five (1972)"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." The opening words of the famous novel are the quickest summary of this haunting, funny film. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonneguts obsessive story of Pilgrim, whosurvives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his pastas a young American POW, in the future as a well-cared-for resident of a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and in the present as a middle-aged optometrist in Ilium, N.Y.Summary written by Anonymous