真人版《木偶奇遇记》，重新讲述木偶匹诺曹努力成为真男孩的动人故事。
父母吵架闹分家，子女心存疑窦又不敢直问。母亲想卖了宅基地为买房最困难的老三助一臂之力，父亲怕无法平衡儿女关系不同意。随着故事进展，真相大白，表现父母对子女的爱又上了一个台阶。
著名魔术师罗曼诺夫三兄弟正准备他们的新魔术表演，这将使他们成为举世闻名的明星。本以为一切准备完好，然而在表演过程中，女助手凭空消失在道具水箱中，不见踪影。幕后凶手以女助手生命为要挟，控制着整场魔术表演。三兄弟只得一边进行表演，一边查找凶手。 而从一切偏离轨道开始， 每位工作人员都是嫌疑犯......
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.
一位台湾教授大陆寻根，不幸丢失了女儿。失踪的女孩后来被一位好心的农民李大山收养，由于李大山家境贫寒，又在事故中变成了残疾，只好让自己的亲生儿子小辉辍学，让拣回来的义女李叶继续完成学业直至供她上了大学。为此他们父子付出常人难以忍受的艰辛，但李叶上大学后隐约知道了自己的身世，同时陷入了极度的自卑，并和养父渐渐疏远。
