Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale (Shirley Jones) as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphange to rescue as many orphaned children and fly them out of the country before the city falls to the communists in the spring of 1975. Written by Anonymous
故事发生在八年抗战时期的上海,小勤丽自幼家境殷实,受到良好教育,还迷上了音乐,一心想成为钢琴家,父亲惠义(姜文 饰)本身是个开明的知识分子,一直支持女儿梦想。但当勤丽长成婚配年龄段少女(屠怀青 饰)时,家中老人却想把她嫁给大资本家的儿子陈有煌,借此联姻挽救岌岌可危的家族生意,重压之下, 惠义只好妥协,勤丽出国深造音乐的梦想破灭,从此父女失和。勤丽出嫁后,受到公婆处处用封建礼教的刁难束缚,还不许她碰钟爱的钢琴,幸好丈夫通情达理,对她支持疼爱,勤丽也慢慢对他产生了感情。战乱动荡,陈家迁居香港,陈有煌染上恶疾,勤丽只得跟随,但也未放弃练琴。时光荏苒,勤丽已经成了旅居巴黎的女钢琴家,举办自己的音乐会时,久未谋面的父亲竟然在过道出现……