A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.

In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.

Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.

This story centers on the Jewish practice that requires an unmarried brother to marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the younger brother is only 12 years old when his brother dies. The requirement is avoided by a legal fiction, but as time passes in the story, the situation changes.

故事发生在1942年的耶路撒冷，大卫（汤姆·汉克斯 Tom Hanks 饰）和好友皮特（本内迪克特·泰勒 Benedict Taylor 饰）加入了英国皇家空军，被派往那里驻守。在那儿，大卫邂逅了名为莎拉（克里斯蒂娜·马尔西利亚奇 Cristina Marsillach 饰）的女孩，几经波折之后，两人相爱了。 可是，莎拉出生在一个非常传统的犹太家庭之中，对于她的父母来说，和异族人通婚是大逆不道的事情。为了拆散萨拉和大卫，萨拉的家人囚禁了这个可怜的姑娘，不仅如此，他们还想方设法逼迫莎拉嫁给她的堂兄。眼看着无法逃脱悲惨的命运，萨拉决定见大卫最后一面，然后彻底放弃挣扎的希望。

Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.

英国托管末期的以色列特拉维夫。生活在切罗基大街的是一群来自世界各地犹太人。15岁埃及裔以色列男孩儿萨米是寡妇克拉拉的长子。克拉拉给人帮佣，家庭生活拮据。喜欢读书的萨米不得不缀学去做工。因粗暴的工头的种族歧视语言引发了工人们的罢工，萨米借机来到图书馆看，邂逅了叙利亚女孩儿索妮亚，并与她发生了肌肤之亲，最终因种族和年龄的差异而分手。英国军队四处抓捕犹太激进分子，民不聊生。联合国决议宣布后，第一次中东战争开始，萨米的弟弟在轰炸中丧生，萨米虚报年龄参军入伍，奔赴战场。 获奖情况： 该片获当年奥斯卡最佳外语片提名。