一个看似完美的家庭,在生下一名天生有缺陷的婴儿后便濒临破碎。 茱莉亚出生后便有缺陷,可能随时都得面临夭折的命运,她的父亲马克(Eric Close饰)无法接受这个事实,离家出走。她的母亲戴安步派克(Kimberly Williams (I)饰)发现其实在生命中还是能有许多的贵人相助,像是她的母亲汉娜(Blair Brown饰)、以及一位乐观的年轻女孩艾美(Alexa Vega饰),还有她前夫的兄弟大卫(Campbell Scott饰)身为一名医师,不时尽心尽力的照顾茱莉亚。当然,茱莉亚本身也带给了母亲很大的鼓舞。 影片中原著作者卢安.莱斯Luanne Rice则认为本故事只是纯粹在展现一种无条件的爱,一种每一位母亲都愿意为她小孩付出的爱…….。法医大卫(雷·利奥塔 Ray Liotta 饰)在勘验现场发现了与他妻子被害时相同的线索。大卫决定展开调查,但一直没有取得突破性进展。直到他结识了一位神经学教授玛莎(琳达·费奥伦蒂诺 Linda Fiorentino 饰),她正在研究一种特殊配方药剂,可以将老鼠的记忆力进行移植。 玛莎的研究引发了大卫的兴趣,他决定尝试将死者的记忆力注入自己体内,以了解凶案的经过,帮助找出真凶。在试验进行时,凶嫌与警方对峙时被击毙,使得大卫失去了唯一的线索。为了继续调查,他决定借用已故凶嫌的记忆,希望能够找到下一个线索。然而,在这个过程中,大卫意外地发现了一个牵扯到自身的巨大谎言。他的调查逐渐揭示了一个错综复杂的阴谋,牵涉到他自己的生活和身世。。Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that someone else lives in her apartment: Dr. Hans Mertens, the war made him depressive and he drinks a lot of alcohol. Susanne asks him to go but he doesn't want to, so they share Susanne's apartment and even discover their sympathy and then their love for each other. That encourages him a little, of course. But then he hears that Ferdinand Brückner is still alive and also lives in Berlin. Brückner was his Captain during WW2, he gave the order to kill more than 100 innocent people, many children and women among them, on Christmas 1942 in Poland.
Summary written by Cinemator。