故事发生在1944年的德国,伊丽莎白(琳达·汉密尔顿 Linda Hamilton 饰)带着儿子福瑞斯(Matthew Harbour 饰)藏身于森林木屋之中,以躲避战火带来的伤害。某日,三名受伤的美国士兵敲响了伊丽莎白家的房门,他们需要一个地方修养疗伤,无奈之下,伊丽莎白只得让他们进屋,但前提条件是他们的武器必须留在屋外。
没过多久,又来了三名不速之客,他们是德国士兵,在小小的木屋之中,互为敌对的两方人马狭路相逢,艰难维系着表面的平和。圣诞节来临了,众人围坐在餐桌前,共同庆祝这个上帝赐予他们的节日,杯筹交错之间,大家放松了下来,暂且忘记了各自的国籍和立场,气氛开始缓和起来。
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.