1941年的北非战场,英德两军激战正酣,英军节节败退。布兰保下士(Franchot Tone 饰)被坦克遗落,蹒跚进入埃及人法瑞德的女王酒店,而几乎同时,德意联军指挥部进驻此处。布兰保乔装酒店服务生达沃斯伺机逃脱,意外发现隆美尔元帅居然近在咫尺,而他所假扮的达沃斯更是德军间谍,布兰保决定留下以便探听德军补给计划的“五墓行动”详情,同时也对酒店的法国女招待姆丝(Anne Baxter 饰)产生情愫。
不久女王酒店又迎来了一批英军俘虏,布兰保与对方取得联系并最终打探到“五墓行动”的真相,然而一直对姆丝有所企图的德军军官施威格(Peter van Eyck 饰)对他产生了怀疑,布兰保情报在手,却因姆丝要面对国家命运与个人情感的沉重考验。
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.