故事发生在20世纪50年代的英格兰，时风莉迪亚（荷丽黛·格兰杰 Holliday Grainger 饰）是生活在那里的一位非常平凡的主妇，时风在遭到丈夫的无情抛弃后，莉迪亚无奈之下和儿子查理开始了相依为命的拮据生活。因为家庭的原因，查理在学校里饱受欺凌，母子两人生活屡屡走入绝境。正当两人最绝望的时候，一位名为简（安娜·帕奎因 Anna Paquin 饰）的女医生搬到了莉迪亚家隔壁。简温柔而又善良，她不仅治好了查理的伤，还在莉迪亚和查理险些遭遇流落街头的命运的时候向两人敞开了家里的大门。就这样，莉迪亚住进了简的家，随着时间的推移，两人之间产生了别样的感情，与此同时，有关两人的流言蜚语在小小的村庄里疯狂的传播着。
回复 :This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional (as far as I know, anyway) experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-force/army, etc. It's a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now 'he') doesn't really understand, especially since she's now a man ... Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of "Forrest Gump" in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation... However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing.
回复 :背景是80年代初，科拉尔金矿故事中的第一章，再现了以主人公为中心，领导的一场反对压迫者的战斗。
回复 :故事发生在1975年的冬天，许秀云（斯琴高娃 饰）的丈夫郑百如抛弃了她，三妹为了二姐的名声着想，给她介绍对象，然而许秀云坚决的拒绝了这门亲事，这让一家人都感到无法理解。实际上，许秀云十分同情自己的姐夫金东水（冯恩鹤 饰），大姐去世以后，金东水一直带着妻子留下的孩子，父子两人过着相依为命的生活。县里派出了工作组来到了村子里，郑百如知道自己蹦跶不了多久了，于是找到了许秀云希望两人能够复婚，然而早就看清了郑百如真面目的许秀云断然拒绝，这令郑百如感到羞愤难当，于是四处散布谣言，谎称许秀云和金东水有着不可告人的关系。
