丹尼斯(拉尔夫·费因斯 Ralph Fiennes 饰)已经在精神病院治疗了20年,现在他刚回归社会,却发现并不能顺利地开始新生活。因为,往昔的情景一幕幕闪回,支离破碎而又让他无法摆脱。尤其是母亲,以及父亲和那个破坏了丹尼斯家庭的妓女,更让他回忆中的往事似乎变得真实。是父亲和妓女杀死了他心爱的母亲。他们残忍地用铁锹砸死母亲,把她埋在菜园子里……
把回忆串联起来后,丹尼斯决定找妓女复仇。然而,他的记忆可靠吗?事情的原貌正如他还原出来的样子吗?有时记忆常常会欺骗我们。
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.