出卖雄风

　　本剧讲述了生活在昭和40年代的东京下町的朝野今日子，为家业而忙碌，却向往后年的大阪世界博览会。她的梦想遭遇相亲的挫败，决定前往大阪。在万田家，她遇到了舅舅家的困境和表妹千夏的矛盾。千夏对大阪世博会充满期待，却受到家庭期望的束缚。今日子支持千夏挑战自己成为世博会的服务人员，而这成为了她的梦想实现的一步。

　　Joanna's holiday is shattered when her sisters tell her that their dad has dumped, he isn't responding to any calls and disappeared to a Caribbean island. The sisters decide to go to save their father and bring him home for Christmas.

　　World War II is around the corner, but the only thing Sally Bauer can think of is the ocean. Her dream is to swim across the English Channel. Her father has tried to exorcise her obsession with swimming since she was a toddler, without success. An unwanted pregnancy forces her to abandon her dream – and herself. The child’s father does not want to be involved, so as a woman in the ‘30s in Sweden, Sally has no choice but to do what is expected of her: to be a mother. There is no place left for her dreams and Sally is pulled into bottomless darkness, until her sister Carla saves her. With renewed purpose, together the sisters begin to dismantle the conventions they are constantly facing. In late August 1939, Sally stands on the shore at Dover and takes her first step into the English Channel. She swims across the open and icy sea for 15 hours, waving to the Navy who are readying for war. A couple of days after Sally swims ashore at Calais, Poland is invaded.

　　66岁的施密特先生（杰克•尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰）退休赋闲在家，无所事事的生活让他颇感无聊。每天依旧7点起床，可是陪伴他的只是无聊的字谜游戏和令人生厌的妻子，施密特需要找点事来改变自己的生活，于是他打算资助一位坦桑尼亚的孤儿恩度古，并提笔给他写了第一封信。妻子的忽然离世让他的生活显得更加冷清，他曾至开始想念那个乏味的女人，可是就在这时，他在妻子的换衣间里找到妻子和另一个男人的情书。施密特决定独自驾车去旅行，他去了很多曾经生活过的地方，回忆当年感慨良多。在一时冲动亲吻一位有夫之妇之后，他慢慢的原谅了自己的妻子。女儿的婚姻比自己想像的更糟，平庸的丈夫和不可思议的家庭让他对女儿的未来愈加担忧，然而这一切都非他所能改变。旅途中他从未停止给恩度古写信，在信里，施密特详尽的描述着自己的生活和困惑。当施密特参加完女儿的婚礼，回到家时意外的收到恩度古的回信，看着那些简单的文字和恩度古充满童真的图画，施密特忽然泪如泉涌……