曾经,史蒂芬(凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰)亦是怀揣着保家卫国的热血理想参军踏上了战场,然而,知道真正的身处于炮火之中时,史蒂芬才发现,战争,无论对于己方还是敌人,都是一场惨无人道的酷刑。史蒂夫幸运的成为了战场上的幸存者,返回了家乡,没想到这里一切早已物是人非,史蒂芬决定依靠自己的双手,重建家园。
史蒂芬有两个孩子,在孩子们眼中,浴战火而重生的父亲显然就是英雄的典范,可是史蒂芬却想向孩子们揭开战争的残酷本质。两个孩子在一颗大树上建造了一间树屋作为秘密基地,没想到这间树屋却成为了另一场战争的导火索。
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.