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.

全罗南道木浦家途不幸环境中的“朴泰洙”（暂音译 赵寅成饰）成长为一介好事之徒。高中时期目睹偷盗行为的父亲被检察施暴，体悟到权力与力量的重要。虽然奋斗爬上检察官一职，但毫无背景与根基无异于普通上班族。期间了解到权力中心人物检察官“韩强植”（暂音译 郑雨盛饰）并归其麾下。木浦的同乡朋友“崔斗日”（暂音译 柳俊烈饰）帮助其不断扩展势力，然而成功真的如他们所愿一路畅通？金义城饰演组织头目“金应修”（音译），金雅中饰演富家女出身，费心辅助丈夫“朴泰洙”跻身上流社会的“尚熙”（音译），“朴泰洙”其父由郑成模饰演，其妹由郑恩彩饰演。同时黄胜妍，李珠妍也将参演其中。

刚光复的台湾依然动荡,渔妇李甘妹(陸小芬 饰)抱着刚出生不久的儿子阿吉(齊秦 饰),却再也见不到流失于大海的丈夫.她下定决心,即使再苦,她也要离开渔村,离开大海,不让儿子走上他父亲的旧途.一生辛酸的李甘妹,从青春到迟暮,一直活在希望中,活在被大海漂去的生活中.幾近二十年了,她依然守望大海,等待她的儿子有一天能够归航,向他的母亲招手./

喧嚣繁华的大都市，在一座摩天大楼的顶端，幸福地汤姆悠哉游哉躺在躺椅内晒太阳，旁边是可口的果汁与果树，温暖的阳光洒在他的身上，生活无忧无虑，充满快乐。而在大厦旁边的破篱笆内，居住着面黄肌瘦、三餐不饱的小老鼠杰瑞。他口中无食、肚皮瘪瘪，只得用尾巴扎住嗷嗷叫的肚皮。这时，他突然发现附近工地的钢材上，放着工人遗落下来的便当。为美食所吸引，杰瑞冲入便当盒内大快朵颐，然而塔吊却将其连同钢材一同吊起。饱餐一顿的杰瑞万万没有想到，他走出来时竟已鼠在半空。他哀号着跌落下去，却引起汤姆的注意。小老鼠对于汤姆来说自然是无上美味，他连忙拿来面包片借助杰瑞，准备进行一次快乐的午餐……