At the beginning of "Traumnovelle, " a well-heeled Viennese couple, Fridolin and Albertina (in "Eyes Wide Shut" they become New Yorkers Bill and Alice Harford, played by Tom Cruise and his wife, Nicole Kidman) put their daughter to bed.

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That night, Fridolin, a medical doctor, has professional duties that call him away, and as he strolls turn-of-the-century Vienna's cobbled streets, one sexual opportunity after another is laid before him: the willing daughter of a recently deceased colleague, a saucy prostitute, a simple girl whose father is pimping for her.

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