电影改编自美国作曲家科尔·波特的生平。 故事发生在法国巴黎，美国人波特（凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰）带着对未来的憧憬和远大梦想来到了这个处处充满了艺术气息的都市，在这里，波特结识了名叫琳达（艾什莉·贾德 Ashley Judd 饰）的美丽女子，琳达的出现重新唤起了波特对于女人的渴望，两人之间的关系迅速热络了起来，之后走入了婚姻的殿堂。 对于波特的事业，琳达十分关注，她将波特的作品推荐给了著名作曲家欧文（基思·艾伦 Keith Allen 饰），以此为契机，波特逐渐在业内站稳了脚跟。随着波特的逐渐出名，他和琳达之间的关系开始产生了裂缝，相爱但无法相守的两人沉浸在痛苦之中，一个家庭眼看就要破碎。
失恋穷困的留学生（宋芸桦 饰）、朝圣嘻哈街舞的青年（姜涛 饰）、面对家庭问题与孩子心理疾病压力的移民夫妻（姚淳耀、魏蔓 饰），异乡的生活充满挑战，相互争吵却又彼此依赖，在理解与追梦的过程，友情、爱情、亲情成为他们坚守的一切。
The true story is of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until Stalin's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero, squirrel, maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.
Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton. Later, despite misgivings about his violent nature, Jane becomes involved with Bill, who resolves to reform. She gets him a job driving a medical supplies truck. But racketeer Harry Carter, who witnessed the killing, wants to use Bill's talents for crime.
