马蒂亚斯（凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰）继承了父亲的房子，他来到巴黎，想要将房子卖掉，以弥补经济上的捉襟见肘。然而，当他来到自己的房子里是，面对的却是两个陌生的女人——马蒂尔德（玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰）和她的女儿克洛伊（克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯 Kristin Scott Thomas 饰）。 原来，两人是父亲生前的房客，按照法律规定，如果马蒂亚斯坚持将房产变卖，那么他就必须按月向马蒂尔德支付房租。马蒂亚斯和马蒂尔德达成了暂住协议，却依旧没有打消卖房子的念头，克洛伊对看似狡猾的马蒂亚斯充满了戒备，然而，随着时间的推移，两人发现了彼此之间的共同点，一种奇妙的感情油然而生。
In this powerful documentary, Mama Yang, an 84-year-old woman living in New York, finds herself in correspondence with 45 high security prison inmates she views as her own children. Most are Chinese American immigrants, and see in Mama Yang a mother figure they never knew before they stepped through prison walls.
For Mama Yang though, the story is about more than Christian charity. She had already lived a full life in Taiwan when her husband died at age sixty and her son lost their house in a financial blunder. She moved to the US to start anew and lives with a Taiwanese American granddaughter that remains distant. In a film marked by family separations, Mama Yang writes letters – whether to the incarcerated or to her own granddaughter – to heal lifetimes of wounds.
