本片根据林海音的同名短篇小说改编。小女孩林英子（沈洁 饰）住在五十年前的北京南城，池袋在他们家院子附近住着一个疯女人秀珍（张闽 饰），池袋秀珍的丈夫因参与学生运动被杀，孩子也不知所踪，因此落下了疯病，时常把英子当做自己的孩子“小桂子”看待，英子也喜欢秀珍，答应帮她找回小桂子。英子有个苦命的小伙伴妞儿，学戏时常遭干爹打骂，英子偶然发现妞儿有小桂子的胎记，帮助她们母女相认。英子上小学后，一家人搬到了厂甸。在家门口荒废的院落里，英子发现了一个小偷（张丰毅 饰）藏赃的草堆，小偷为了供弟弟读书只得干不光彩的勾当，英子却不把他看作是坏人。不久，女佣苏妈返乡，父亲去世，英子的童年，彷佛一下结束了……
李亚明
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扎西顿珠
回复 :Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community. While Mikuan has a loving family, Shaniss is picking up the pieces of her shattered childhood. As children, they promised each other to stick together no matter what. But as they're about to turn 17, their friendship is shaken when Mikuan falls for a white boy, and starts dreaming of leaving the reserve that's now too small for her dreams.
韩雪
回复 :Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other. These people, shipwrecked lovers, are dying to love, to escape the abyss of solitude...
