知县梵如花

Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...

转眼30年过去，往日的荣光渐渐不再。曾经的传奇拳王洛奇（西尔维斯特·史泰龙 Sylvester Stallone 饰）生活平淡乏味，心爱的妻子亚德里安（Talia Shire 饰）因癌症去世，自己与儿子的关系又分外紧张，他终日坐在所开的小餐馆里追忆往昔，谁也不会想到这位拳王退休后的人生竟如此落寞。是时，新一代的拳王横空出世，年轻的梅森·迪克逊（Antonio Tarver 饰）统治者重量级冠军的头衔。在体育频道工作的波利（Burt Young 饰）突发奇想，策划了一场新老两代拳王的世纪对决。梅森渴望在比赛中向拳迷们证明自己的实力，洛奇则希望在此感受万众欢呼呐喊的狂热气氛，他们怀着各自的心愿重返拳台……

Yi-jung is in her late twenties and still lives with her mother. Having raised her daughter alone, Su-kyung is now ready to start a new life with her fiancé and leave the past behind. Not so Yi-jung, who from an early age has all too often had to serve as an outlet for her irascible mother’s frustrations. The many years of disregard have left her with a crippling mixture of suppressed feelings towards her mother from whom she simply cannot break free. When an argument between the two escalates in a supermarket car park, Su-kyung hits her daughter with her car. Just an accident, the mother claims. Malicious intent, Yi-jung retorts. This rebellion marks the beginning of an arduous process for both women to cut the cord.

全片的结构是根据“轮回”的理念建立起来的四段式结构，四段故事的时间分别是一年中的春、夏、秋、冬，地点分别是牧区、农村、县城、城市，主角分别是小孩、青年人、成年人、老年人。全片讲一年的故事，也是讲每个人都会经历的一辈子的故事。