在乍得的恩贾梅纳郊区，Amina和她15岁的独生女Maria独居在一起。她本已脆弱的世界，在她发现女儿怀孕的那天分崩离析。对方少年并不想要这个孩子。在一个堕胎不仅受到宗教谴责，而且会受到法律谴责的国家，Amina发现自己面临着一场似乎提前失败的斗争......
本片根据国际象棋神童菲欧娜·木塔西的经历改编而成，菲奥娜出生在乌干达最大的贫民窟卡推，当地教堂为前来学习国际象棋的人提供米粥，菲欧娜为此进入象棋班，极具天赋的她棋艺精进，最终代表国家登上国际棋坛。
Mari (Marina Vlady) runs a boardinghouse for girls who are in trouble, and Juli (Lili Monori) is a young married woman who is fleeing her passionate marriage with an uncontrollable alcoholic. She has brought her young daughter along with her. Though this is not allowed under the house rules, Mari makes an exception for Juli. Both women are desperately unfulfilled - Mari has a narrow-minded and passionless man for a husband, and Juli still loves her husband, whom she recognizes as a person she cannot continue living with. The two turn to each other for comfort, and each woman gains necessary insights into her own life in seeing the other's struggles. This sober movie by feminist director Marta Meszaros was not a rousing box-office success.
冯齐（林申 饰）与比他大8岁的陈颜（朱俐颖 饰）邂逅在火车上，冯齐对她一见倾心，但离异且有一女儿的陈颜不置可否。后来，冯齐考上了军校，主动提出与陈颜建立恋爱关系，都遭陈屡屡拒绝。冯齐反而义无反顾地展开了爱情攻势，他想让陈颜重新树立起对爱情的信心，架不住冯齐多次热烈的表白，陈颜最终答应了冯齐的追求，甚至将女儿未来的前途都寄希望于这个比自已小的男人。当冯齐的父母得知自己的儿子找了一个年龄很大的拖油瓶，表示坚决反对，在多次与儿子沟通未果的情况下，他们找到部队的领导做他的工作，面对如山的压力，冯齐渐渐退缩了，不知该怎样去面对他曾经信誓旦旦的陈颜......
