表面上看来,珍妮(凯丽·拉塞尔 Keri Russell 饰)是一位再平凡不过的姑娘,然而,在她的内心里隐藏着一个只有她自己才知道的秘密。原来,珍妮深深的沉迷于英国女作家简奥斯汀所撰写的小说之中,对于她笔下的“达西先生”更是迷恋的无法自拔,在珍妮的心目中,达西先生就是她日后择偶的唯一标杆。
然而,正由于怀抱着这样不切实际的可笑幻想,才让珍妮在感情世界里处处碰壁遍体鳞伤。一次偶然中,她收到了一封来自远房亲戚的来信,这位富有的绅士邀请珍妮前往“奥斯汀庄园”度假,珍妮当然不会放过这一千载难逢的好机会,并在内心里暗暗生出了对于这名绅士的好感。可是珍妮再也想不到,这一趟旅程不仅是她的寻梦之旅,却也是她的梦碎之旅。
In this powerful documentary, Mama Yang, an 84-year-old woman living in New York, finds herself in correspondence with 45 high security prison inmates she views as her own children. Most are Chinese American immigrants, and see in Mama Yang a mother figure they never knew before they stepped through prison walls.
For Mama Yang though, the story is about more than Christian charity. She had already lived a full life in Taiwan when her husband died at age sixty and her son lost their house in a financial blunder. She moved to the US to start anew and lives with a Taiwanese American granddaughter that remains distant. In a film marked by family separations, Mama Yang writes letters – whether to the incarcerated or to her own granddaughter – to heal lifetimes of wounds.