瑞贝卡(伊娃·格林 Eva Green 饰)回到了童年生活过的临海小镇,在那里,住着一个她无论如何也要见到的人——儿时玩伴托马斯(马特·史密斯 Matt Smith 饰)。曾经的懵懂少年如今已经成长为男人,两人之间迅速的产生了奇妙的化学反应。没过多久,一场车祸夺走了托马斯的生命,悲痛欲绝的瑞贝卡做出了一个危险的决定——利用当代先进的基因克隆技术,复制托马斯的基因。十个月之后,一个名叫托马斯的婴儿呱呱坠地,作为生下他的母亲,瑞贝卡的心情十分复杂。
在托马斯的眼中,母亲是一个即神秘又极具魅力的女人,在她惊人的美貌里,隐藏着的是深深的哀愁和绝望,而她望向自己的眼神,也似乎包含了千言万语。纸终究包不住火,随着托马斯的渐渐长大,那个不能说的秘密也在逐渐的显影,待到真相被揭露的那一天,这两个痛苦的人该何去何从?
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.