16岁的美丽少女阿贝尔(琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰)离开了让她倍感压抑的原生家庭,前往伦敦,投奔一个名叫布鲁斯(Jefferson Pascal 饰)男人。很快,这对小情侣就花光了所有的积蓄,为了维持生计,布鲁斯出海成为了一名走私犯,而阿贝尔则在误打误撞之中进了监狱,此时她震惊的发现,腹中已经怀上了布鲁斯的孩子。
在强盗杰克(约翰·拉塞尔 John Russell 饰)的帮助之下,阿贝尔从监狱里逃了出来,之后被杰克卖到了剧院。在那里,阿贝尔邂逅了拉德克里夫公爵(理查德·格林尼 Richard Greene 饰),很快,两人结了婚,阿贝尔一跃成为了公爵夫人。就在这个节骨眼上,布鲁斯再度出现在了阿贝尔的面前,并且向她索要那个属于自己的孩子。
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.