Communist East Berlin, early 1980s: LUDGER is hired by the Stasi to infiltrate a subversive countercultural movement in the district of Prenzlauer Berg. After falling in love with the mysterious NATHALIE and sleeping with his first target, CORINNA, Ludger ends up living two lives – one as an underground poet and one as a Stasi agent – both of which eventually come back to haunt him 30 years later.

這是一個(gè)美國再普通不過的小鎮(zhèn)。鎮(zhèn)上居民露薇（多莉-帕頓Dolly Parton飾）開了一間美容沙龍，和五個(gè)顧客女子特別要好，美容沙龍就成為她們嬉笑怒罵家長里短的場所。雖然性格各異，但六個(gè)好友聚在一起，時(shí)光總是有趣而又溫馨。
　　謝比爾（朱莉婭·羅伯茨 Julia Roberts飾）就是其中一個(gè)死黨。她患有糖尿病，因此母親再三勸說她不能生孩子。謝比爾卻毅然決定要懷孕生育。她憑著堅(jiān)強(qiáng)的信念，讓孩子順利誕生，自己卻衰竭倒下。母親承受著白頭人送黑頭人之痛，謝比爾生前的好友成為了此時(shí)此刻的強(qiáng)心針。她們共同度過悲傷的歲月，一起祈求雨過天晴的來臨，謝比爾的生命在她們心中一直延續(xù)著。