阿列克塞（谢尔盖·贝泽鲁科夫 Sergei Bezrukov 饰）是一位非常有名的芭蕾舞演员，却在一次表演中身受重伤，不得不告别舞台。阿列克塞一生都将芭蕾舞表演视作是自己生命的支柱，因此这一重大变故给予了阿列克塞沉重的打击。 一晃眼二十年过去，阿列克塞的身体状况每况愈下，甚至很快就将会无法行走。然而，越是身陷低谷，阿列克塞就越是无法忘却对于芭蕾舞的热情。在这二十年中，阿列克塞一直都在设计一些难度非常高的芭蕾舞动作，现在，单纯的设计已经再也无法满足他了，他决定再度站上舞台，向病魔宣战。可是，阿列克塞要面对的并非生理上的痛楚这么单纯，他还要抵御周遭人的诋毁和怀疑。
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.
