A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.'Often referred to as a stinking rose, garlic, in its culinary uses, generally evokes a love it or hate it response. Quite often, these responses are on cultural lines, where old world cultures have generally revered it in their cooking, while new world cultures have not. A renaissance of sorts is taking place in the use of garlic in the United States, with more and more immigrants bringing their use of the spice to the country, with more people desiring more spice in their food, with a desire to get back to the land and with the production of plant a large part of the Central California landscape. Many chefs are presented preparing dishes prominently featuring the spice. On the bad side, the association of garlic to bad breath is discussed. On the other side, its purported health benefits are also discussed. Other topics presented include its association to vampirism, and speculation of how people will want their garlic to be presented to them in the future.

胡婷婷（林翠 饰）和彬彬（叶枫 饰）虽然身为姐妹，个性却大相径庭，胡婷婷内敛而又严肃，彬彬调皮爱玩，两人走在一起，倒也是一道亮丽的风景线。胡婷婷因为心高气傲而一直没有结婚，这可急坏了妈妈陈静芳。为了给女儿觅得一个好人家，陈静芳强迫全家人参加富贵友人举办的生日宴会。在宴会上，姐妹两人遇见了富家公子金却利和车行公人小金，金却利对胡婷婷一见钟情，对她大献殷情，反而引起了胡婷婷的反感。相对的，胡婷婷倾心于老实善良的小金，这让陈静芳感到十分苦恼。金却利眼看着胡婷婷对自己不感兴趣，又将追求的目标放在了彬彬的身上，古灵精怪的彬彬哪会轻易放过这个花花公子，将他好好的戏耍了一番。

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源起会议之国的小型讲座，一群伟人聚在一起，开了一个伟大的讨论会，伟大的主题是:“什么是诗意”。开场一个象征镜头，影机先是追踪着火车，开进小城，再走到大街小巷，然后停靠酒店，走进局促的会议室。接着，一批有头有脸的作家杀入镜头，阿城、王朔、马原、方方、余华、棉棉，从阿城的“诗意”考古开始，讲到“有钱就有诗意”。各抒己见的过程中，大家谈得性起，渐将诗意按压在自我之下。镜头有时溜出来，看另一种风景。一旁的会议策划人，在酒店偶遇旧爱，更能体味点点诗意。演员王彤和王志文，就演着也许由作家虚构的故事，他们的存在，比作家更真实。吕乐一个革命式的举动:拆走纪录片与剧情片框框，将两者放在同一议题与空间自由对话。