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故事发生在九十年代北京一座古老的旗人宅院。改革的大潮席卷大都市的同时，也将这座小巷深处的小院中的四户人家卷进了激流之中。小院儿从此少了往日的宁静；小院儿的四户人家也从此少了往日的悠闲，就连院里的老槐树枯死之后，大夏天里街坊四邻乘凉儿的嗜好也没有了...。乔（凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰）的妻子艾米丽（苏珊娜·汤姆森 Susanna Thompson 饰）死于一场车祸，讽刺的是，在医院担任心理创伤治疗的乔这一回却无法修复自己破碎的内心。乔的世界崩塌了，他抑郁，酗酒，对于工作的无法放弃和责任感成为了他活在这个世界上的唯一理由。 一次偶然中，乔被委托完成一项工作，他的病人们是身患绝症的儿童。令乔感到意外的是，艾米丽生前一直照料着的，正是这些儿童。为了怀念妻子，乔毅然接手了这项工作，天真懵懂的孩童逐渐治愈了乔的内心，正当他的生活逐渐走上正轨之时，一个意外的消息再次扰乱了乔的内心，一个有过濒死经历的孩子告诉乔，他在“那个世界”里看到了艾米丽，而艾米丽似乎有着什么话想要传达给乔。。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。
