60岁的罗伯特·米勒（理查·基尔 Richard Gere 饰）是个事业有成的亿万富翁，备受业界尊重和家人崇拜。然而这都是表象，实际上他不仅私自在公司的账目上动手脚以掩盖投资损失和欺诈嫌疑，还背着妻子在外偷腥。一天夜里，米勒因疲劳驾驶而发生车祸，情妇当场死亡，而他逃离现 场。为了掩盖涉嫌谋杀和保住商业洽谈，米勒开始疯狂地销毁和制造证据，然而随着探员布莱尔（蒂姆·罗斯 Tim Roth 饰）的层层介入，以及自己的女儿似乎也觉察了个中蹊跷，米勒渐渐发现，他在谎言的路上已经越走越远……

Russell gives a moving performance as sister Elizabeth Kenny, the dedicated nurse who crusaded for the treatment of infantile paralysis. Academy Award Nominations Best Actress--Rosalind Russell.

吉娜(凯丽?拉塞尔 饰)擅长制作各种美味非常的馅饼,她把每天在生活中的经历都化为做馅饼的灵感。但实际上她的生活并不快乐，她被一段名存实亡的婚姻困扰多年。 　　她一心想参加馅饼比赛，得到足够多的钱之后离开丈夫厄尔（杰瑞米?西斯托 饰）现自己怀孕了，她知道自己的丈夫是个自私的人，无法养育孩子。她十分迷茫之际，遇到了妇产科医生波马特（内森?菲利安 饰）并且两人疯狂的恋上了，波马特也是个已婚之人。她知道自己的行为是错误的，但她还是不能控制的与波马特见面，受尽良心谴责的她从朋友身上得到了很多的启示。 　　就在女儿出生当天，她决意要与丈夫分开，也要好好处理与波马特的关系。

　　Single-mother Sandra (Clare Dunne) escapes her abusive partner with her two young children, only to find herself trapped in temporary accommodation. After months of struggling, she draws inspiration from one of her daughter’s bedtime stories and hits upon the idea of self-building an affordable home. She finds an architect who provides her with plans and is offered land by Peggy (Harriet Walter), a woman she cleans for. Aido (Conleth Hill), a building contractor, appears willing to help too. But as her past rears its head, in the form of Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson), her possessive ex, and as bureaucrats fight back against her independent spirit, will Sandra be able to rebuild her life from the ground up?

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.