洛拉(琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰)同老板波特(保罗·道格拉斯 Paul Douglas 饰)结了婚,婚后,洛拉才发现波特对自己的海誓山盟全是谎言,他不过将自己当做了摇钱树。瑞塔(Ann Sothern饰)则要强悍的多,凭借着剧本写作收入不菲,甚至快要赶上了丈夫乔治(柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰)。洛拉(琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰)拥有过人的美貌,却依然生活在怀疑和困惑之中。 某日,三位太太带着孩子们正在野餐,一封未写收件人的信不期而至,写信的是名叫艾迪(西莱斯特·霍姆 Celeste Holm 饰)的女人,信上说她即将和三位太太其中一位的丈夫远走高飞,而三个女人却并不知道究竟是谁被背叛了。
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.