29岁的克里斯汀(丽贝卡·豪尔 Rebecca Hall 饰)是一名新闻主播,总是出现在热门时段的电视荧幕之上。要知道,在七十年代,能够成为知名新闻主播,对于一个女人来说是一件难如登天的事情,但克里斯汀凭借着自己的智慧和努力做到了!
虽然身居高位,但为了维系自己在电视台的地位,克里斯汀付出了常人无法想象的汗水,背负了令她感到窒息的压力,她不得不放弃自己的家庭、感情,以获得更多的工作资源。但最终,不断下滑的收视率还是令克里斯汀向现实低头了,她开始违背自己的初衷,制作那些哗众取宠的劲爆新闻,虽然收视率回来了,但克里斯汀却并不感到开心。
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.