作为一枚政治筹码，海军情报官欧尼尔（黛咪·摩尔 Demi Moore 饰）成为了美国历史上第一个参加特种部队“海豹突击队”训练的女性军官。凭借此事，一直呼吁男女平等的参议员狄海雯（安妮·班克罗夫特 Anne Bancroft 饰）获得了诸多选票。然而，利欲熏心的狄海雯根本就不关心欧尼尔作为个体的感受和遭遇，因为她心里明白，欧尼尔根本不可能完成特种部队里残酷而又可怕的训练。 让所有人大吃一惊的是，欧尼尔不仅出色的完成了训练任务，甚至有可能通过最终考试成为特种部队正式的一员，在此节骨眼上，狄海雯只得使出阴招，以欧尼尔为同性恋的虚假理由将其逐出了队伍。在朋友的帮助下，欧尼尔揭穿了狄海雯的阴谋，不仅如此，她还一次实战任务中凭借着自己的智慧大展拳脚，获得了同伴的尊重。
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.
