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该片被誉为台湾“新电影”的开山之作。四位导演拍摄的四段故事（《小龙头》、《指望》、《跳蛙》、《报上名来》）构成了童年（小学）、少年（中学）、青年（大学）、成年（社会）四个人生时期（阶段）。每个阶段都有相应的梦幻世界的快乐和现实世界的烦恼，只是随着年岁增长，两者比例会有所变化。童年因某个好伙伴的离去而忧伤的小朋友（《小龙人》），成人结婚后的烦恼，可能会是因钥匙丢在房里只能穿着短裤在外面晃动（《报上名来》）。而青春期时被帅气强壮的大学生房客吸引了目光的女孩（《指望》），进了大学未尝不会变成另一种模样（《跳蛙》）。——人生充满多种可能，阶段的人生也没有好坏之分，只过就好。

盛夏来临，蚊蝇肆虐。在某处，离地面不远处的空中，12只蚊子整齐地排出阵型，等待猎物的出现。不久，一名高个儿男子出现。猝不及防之时，蚊子军团呼啸而下，对男子进行围攻，他从头到脚浑身上下全部中招。男人想了想，觉得一人挨咬实在太亏，他算了算蚊子的数量，瞬间想出一个好办法。男人又拉来一个敦实的男子，这时蚊子军团再次发起进攻，不同的是每人只遭到6只蚊子的攻击。高个男人一阵窃喜，敦实男人则想法减轻损失，于是又找来一个牺牲品。如是在三，直到第五个男人出现，绝对平均的均衡被彻底打破了……本片荣获第二届上海电影节科教类奖。

Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.

15岁的政夫（佐久田修 饰）进城给生病的母亲买药，途中偶遇了表姐民子（山口百惠 饰），民子得知了姨妈阿菊的病情，主动请缨，要到政夫家里照料阿菊。就这样，两人以此为契机，交往变得密切起来，他们之间的关系也日渐亲密。时间久了，村里开始传起了有关两人的闲言碎语。某日，阿菊让政夫和民子去踩棉花，在此过程中，不慎踩空跌倒的两人顺势抱在了一起，压抑已久的感情终于爆发了。政夫将民子比作是野菊花，自己则是龙胆草，两个天真无邪的年轻人尽情的坦露着对彼此的爱意。政夫要提前回学校念书了，这意味着他将和民子分离，政夫在校期间，民子的家人将她许配给了一个民子并不爱的男人。