年迈的田美云，终身孤独在自己的老房子里，直到某日，一对年轻夫妻带着婴儿来租房，田美云望着小夫妻手里抱着的婴儿，第一次敞开了大门……有⼀次年轻夫妇把婴儿独⾃留在家里，⽥美云因为听到婴儿哭声，想要照顾邻居的婴儿，美云抱著婴儿时，转忆到⾃⼰的⼩孩⽽性情⼤变，想起了⼩孩死前⼀刻，⽥美云把失去⼀个⼩孩所带来的深层愧疚感影射到另一个小孩的身上。

Exploring how one man's brilliance, hubris and relentless drive changed the nature of war forever.

一个年轻的拿破仑军官追踪一个神秘的女人而来到一个年迈男爵的城堡，在那里他发现这个女人是听命于一个老巫婆，其最终目的是迫使男爵自杀……Roger directed for two days on a set left over from a previous production, and without a proper script. He hired Francis Coppola to write a script and finish the picture. After five weeks of shooting, Roger fired Francis, and hired me to finish the picture. Jack Hill was hired to write a new script with me. A lot of what Francis shot was thrown out, except for the stuff with the witch from WIZARD OF OZ. (Dorothy Newman), and I finished the picture in five days of shooting. All of the interiors are Roger's (with the exception of Francis's witch's lair), and most of the exteriors are mine. To the best of my recollection, and contrary to legend, Jack Nicholson did not direct any of the film.

影片以中、朝两国授予的抗美援朝特级英雄黄继光为原型，展示了黄继光如何参军并在军队中得到锻炼，不断提高自己的意志力和战场技巧，最终成为了一名优秀的战士。在上甘岭战役中，为了完成上级安排的任务，为了整个部队的胜利，面对着地堡中敌人的机枪，黄继光牺牲自己，英勇堵枪眼，为战友争取到了短暂的时间，从而消灭了敌人。