紫薇（林心如）偕丫环金锁（范冰冰）带着乾隆（张铁林）留给母亲的信物，从江南来到京城想与乾隆相认，发现进宫面圣根本无门，走投无路之际，她们遇上女飞贼小燕子，与之结为好友，不想因机缘巧合，本热心为紫薇帮忙的小燕子被乾隆错认为是自己女儿。
为庆贺重获爱女，乾隆举行祭天 酬神仪式，仪仗队伍行经市街时被紫薇、金锁看到，紫薇太过激动昏倒在地，被大学士福伦之子福尔康（周杰）所救，得知紫薇身世后，福家人将其收留，其后，紫薇在福尔康的安排下终又与小燕子见面，众人开始为紫薇与乾隆相认一事作种种安排，而在这一过程中，紫薇与福尔康，小燕子与五阿哥永琪（苏有朋）也开始了爱情之旅。

Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.