In 1995, the young Taiwanese woman writer Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in Paris’s Montmartre district, leaving behind the autobiographical novel LAST WORDS IN MONTMARTRE. Two decades later, the novel was published in English by the prestigious New York Review Books, bringing Qiu renown in Western literary circles and quickly prompting translations into other European languages. Qiu is considered the first openly lesbian novelist in the history of Chinese literature; her debut novel, NOTES OF A CROCODILE, became a “Bible” for the Taiwanese lesbian community and an underground classic in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with an official edition finally published in 2012. DEATH IN MONTMARTRE travels through Taiwan, Paris, and New York to trace the life of this literary star who enjoyed fame only after her death, interviewing literary masters from Taiwan, France, and the U.S. while discussing LGBTQ culture and lesbian literature from a perspective of equality.

少女林晓阳（杨林 饰）爱看漫画，常幻想自己是细川智荣子少女漫画《尼罗河女儿》主角。她生活在繁华的台北，白天在肯德基当店员，晚上在夜校读书。晓阳与家人住在一座简陋的平房里，祖父（李天禄 饰）是个风趣的老头。父亲（崔福生 饰）在嘉义当员警，常年在外执勤。母亲去世后，晓阳肩负起母亲的职责，照顾上了年纪的父亲及上学的妹妹，并整天为哥哥担心。哥哥（高捷 饰）与朋友合开一家餐厅，白天工作，晚上当小偷，却能照顾到家人。父亲和哥哥爆发冲突时，晓阳总是站在哥哥一边。她暗恋上哥哥的朋友阿三，却不知阿三爱着别人。种种事实让她感到气愤、悲伤和绝望，并在遭受打击后成熟清醒。

州警察丹（格兰特·古斯汀饰）梦想加入 K-9 搜救队，却苦于得不到机会。收容所犬露比梦想有一个家，却看不到希望。当命运让丹和露比相遇，一人一犬之间的深厚羁绊将帮助这对搭档应对迄今为止最艰巨的挑战。根据真实故事改编。

陆太太的女儿文兰（路珊 饰）和素未谋面的司徒炎（金焰 饰）有着一纸婚约，抗战结束之后，司徒炎终于从前线归来准备和文兰见面。全家人都以为司徒炎是高官，对他抱有着极大的期待，只有小女儿文蕙（白杨 饰）对司徒炎的身份不置可否。然而，当陆家人真正见到司徒炎之后却大失所望，因为眼前的男子并非什么大官，只是一个碌碌无名的小记者罢了。文兰火速和司徒炎解除了婚约，可文蕙却被司徒炎的才华深深的吸引了。某日，司徒炎写了一篇披露贪污受贿的新闻报道，牵扯到了陆太太的哥哥，陆太太想要贿赂司徒炎撤回新闻，遭到了后者的严词拒绝。