日理万机的商界女强人玛格列特(苏菲·玛索 Sophie Marceau 饰)精明强干,性感而极富活力。然而正值不惑之年的她,也同样面对着理想与现实、事业与家庭带给她的困惑和彷徨。40岁生日那天,玛格列特收到了一个来自老家的包裹,里面竟然是她七岁时写给未来自己的信。“亲爱的我:今天,我7岁生日,特别写封信给你,提醒你要记住,7岁时说过的承诺和我对将来的梦想……”
接下来的几天,玛格列特同样收到了这样的包裹。儿时那些不愉快的记忆,如潮水般汹涌而至。故事便从这些尘封着童年回忆的信件开始了。
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.