清朝末年，江南小镇。容家大太太（归亚蕾 饰）知道自己丈夫在城里与一个叫嫣红的交际花同居，而且老爷似乎没有回家的打算。这一切都是因为大太太多年无所出。为了让老爷回家，她看上了佃农的女儿秀禾（周迅 饰），因秀禾有着一张和自己年轻时一模一样的脸，决定用她来挽回老爷的欢心，同时令容家有后。然而接下来的事情谁都始料不及。容家小叔（黄磊 饰）与秀禾相爱，而且有了交欢的事实。当秀禾有喜的时候全家都喜乐无比，直到更惊人的真相出现——原来老爷是没有生育能力的，此时秀禾的怀孕成了最大的讽刺。

In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?

A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

2001 film by Wang Xiaoshuai

2005 film by Peter Chan

2008 Chinese film directed by Cao Baoping