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在美国某个乡村工厂做工的捷克移民塞尔玛（比约克）天性善良，因患有先天性疾病，她的视线正日趋模糊。为了不让遗传了该病的儿子也将宿命继承，塞尔玛每日做工都很辛苦，不知情的好友兼同事林达（凯萨琳•丹妮芙）因心疼而好言相劝时，她总是报一微笑，因为她还有另一个纯粹属于音乐的世界，其间的美好与安静，足以抵挡现实的心酸与艰难。令她欣慰的是，在眼睛要彻底变瞎之前，基本筹齐了儿子手术所需的费用，然而就在此时，意外发生，她的命运被加速推向复杂悲惨的境地。

罗通（洪金宝 饰）和做饼的方师傅（孙越 饰）同时爱上了美丽温柔的阿冰（利智 饰），两人对阿冰展开了热烈的追求。当方师傅知道阿冰的心中早已经有了罗通时，善良的他选择了放弃，罗通和阿冰顺理成章的走到了一起。麦芽糖（莫少聪 饰）是罗通的挚友，某日，他邂逅了名为小翠（袁洁莹 饰）的女子，并很快坠入了情网。然而，好友山楂饼（卢冠廷 饰）于无意之中暴露了小翠妓女的身份，使得麦芽糖自觉受到了背叛和欺骗，对麦芽糖一往情深的小翠亦深感受伤。在朋友们的劝解撮合之下，麦芽糖和小翠总算打开了心结喜结连理，却在结婚当晚被恶霸尤五（岑建勋 饰）双双杀死。悲愤之中，罗通决定替好兄弟报仇。

瓦兹太太（杰拉丹·佩姬 Geraldine Page 饰）在丈夫去世之后，和儿子卢迪（约翰·赫德 John Heard 饰）以及儿媳妇杰西（卡琳·格林 Carlin Glynn 饰）生活在一起。虽然日常起居有人照顾，但是杰西是一个脾气火爆的女人，婆媳住在一起，两人之间难免会发生一些摩擦，久而久之，瓦兹太太不愿意在忍耐了，产生了想要离开这个家的念头。瓦茨太太做梦都想要回到自己的故乡——一座名叫邦蒂富尔小镇，然而，无论是在公交站牌还是在地图上，都找不到这座小镇的名字。一位好心的男子驱车将瓦兹太太送到了目的地，直到抵达，她才发现，一切都已经物是人非。

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .