麦子（富田靖子 饰）是出生在一处偏远村庄的平凡女孩，因为童年时代的悲惨经历，麦子的性格阴郁而又自闭，为了改善这种性格，麦子远赴东京，投奔在那里经营艺妓屋的姑妈蝴蝶（大楠道代 饰），就这样，麦子化名铃女，成为了一名艺妓学徒，并且在学习的过程中还要去当地的高中，继续学业。在学校里，麦子认识了名为邦彦（高岛政宏 饰）的英俊学长，然而邦彦已经有了女友京子，京子是学校里的校花，麦子自认为是如何也比不上她的。
　　虽然接受了很多艺妓的训练，但是麦子的个性却并没有太多的改善，不仅如此，她的沉默寡言和行为古怪还令她成为了班级里被霸凌的对象。艺妓屋的名伎扬羽和恩客私奔了，这件事给麦子的心灵带来了震撼。

　　越战时期，美国位于华盛顿特区的石花园，葬着为数众多在越战上殉职的美国军人。《教父》《战栗游戏》詹姆斯肯恩饰演哈塞德军官，深信越战是一场打不赢的战事，相反的，士兵威洛一生最大的职志就是代表国家上战场，好好打一场胜战荣返家园。哈塞德没办法劝阻威洛把自己送到最前线，他唯一能为这个朋友做的，就是──拖延，同时鼓励他好好找回他和瑞秋（《他们的故事》《油炸绿蕃茄》《玫瑰花床》玛丽史都麦特森饰）的感情……

特德是一个专门偷窃宝石捷汽车的团伙头目，在一次偷车事件后，引起了警方的注意，警方于是派一个刚刚加入警队并对汽车非常了解的警察本杰明，化名比尔到特德的修车厂去卧底，比尔通过在修车方面的优异表现取得了特德的信任，并与特德成了好朋友。在特德的手下马尔科姆被杀后，警方加强了对特德的调查，而同时比尔的身份也被特德识穿。特德为了赢得比尔，不择手段地杀害了两个知道比尔身份的警察，希望能让比尔彻底回到他的身边，比尔该怎样面对这一切呢？

　　New York pretentious Diana Sullivan is writing a series of articles on the theme of "family" for Cosmopolitan magazine. Primarily to keep an eye on her but also because of the personal connection, Diana invites her mid-teen daughter, Grace Sullivan, to accompany her on a trip to research the next in the series, dealing with their own family, most specifically a wing that lives deep in the backwaters of the Louisiana bayou, which has been largely overtaken by oil companies of late. They are most directly connected by brothers: Diana's grandfather Mike, and Joe, the patriarch of the Louisiana wing. Diana and Grace have never met their Louisiana relations, they in turn who do not even know that Diana and Grace exist. As difficult as it becomes, Diana and Grace are able to meet their Louisiana relations, led by Joe's widowed young wife, Ruth Sullivan, who acts as if Joe is still with them, who sees anything related to the city as suspect, and who rules her household with an iron fist to ...