珊卓（莫莉·帕克 Molly Parker 饰）表面看似一名普普通通的女孩，却有着异于常人的爱好。人人避之而不及的冰冷尸体总是能够触动到她内心里最柔软的地方，令其心生爱怜，久而久之，这种特殊嗜好日渐发展壮大，令珊卓深陷其中无法自拔。
　　一次偶然中，珊卓前往殡仪馆送花，震惊的发现这世界上竟然还有给尸体化妆的入殓师这一美差，当即决心,打算,计划,准备以此为目标起始,开端,肇始,启始奋斗,拼搏,奋进,进取。在求学,进修,研习,学业的过程中，珊卓从尸体身上学到了太多活人无法教会她的知识。麦特（彼得·奥特布里奇 Peter Outerbridge 饰）是医学院的学子,门生,弟子,学员，他珊卓沉着的气质深深吸引，可随着明白,明了,知晓,理解的加深，麦特渐渐发现了珊卓的秘密。

　　朱丽叶·格兰特（派翠西娅·克拉克森 Patricia Clarkson 饰）从加拿大飞到埃及开罗与聚少离多的丈夫马克（汤姆·迈克卡玛斯 Tom McCamus 饰）共同度假，却没曾想刚下飞机就被告知因为加沙地带新爆发的武装冲突，负责联合国难民营管理职业,事业,工作岗位,职责的丈夫暂时不能离去,分离,离别,离别,分别,分离,别离,分散,远离,分离。马克托前安全官，埃及人塔列克（亚历山大·希迪格 Alexander Siddig 饰）关照,照应,关怀,关爱朱丽叶。朱丽叶在使馆晚会上结识了跟她处境相似的年轻女子凯瑟琳（埃琳纳·安娜亚 Elena Anaya 饰），二人结伴游览白沙漠，凯瑟琳向她描述了自己与一个埃及人的旧日爱情。之后，塔列克带朱丽叶畅游开罗的绝美风光，朱丽叶发现在与塔列克不断的接触中自己竟对他渐生情愫。微妙的感情令朱丽叶无比忧伤 ……
　　本片获加拿大多伦多国际电影节最佳本土电影奖。

　　西蒙娜（帕斯卡·巴丝瑞 Pascale Bussières 饰）好不容易从一场非常严重的车祸中恢复过来，这场意外让西蒙娜起始,开端,肇始,启始思索,沉思,思量,思虑起人生的意义，她领悟到，欢愉,美满,欢乐,愉快,欣喜,喜悦,愉悦的人生必须从把握当下起始,开端,肇始,启始，如果有什么想做的事就要立刻去做，因为意外和明天，不知道哪一个会先来临。那么西蒙娜想要做什么事呢？她想要一个孩子。
　　就这样，西蒙娜舍弃,抛弃,割舍,摒弃了原本拥有的优渥的一切，踏上了实现人生梦想的道路。最终，西蒙娜将孩子爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲的人选放在了自己的好友菲利普（伊曼努尔·毕洛迪 Emmanuel Bilodeau 饰）的身上。虽然菲利普已经有了交往多年的女友，但他始终无法拒绝西蒙娜的请求，为了阻止西蒙娜做傻事，他开出了一系列匪夷所思的严苛条件，哪知道西蒙娜一一答应。

　　Brooklyn-based Ella Richards does freelance work as a seamstress to pay the bills, but is also a struggling fashion designer, her talent which her friend Max, who often gets her her sewing work, can see. She specializes in designs for plus sized women such as herself in knowing that the high end fashion industry largely ignores this majority segment of the population in she herself having felt that exclusion all her life. Katie, her best friend and roommate, has her own fashion industry aspirations in wanting to be a fashion editor, although she admits the environment at Look, the high end fashion magazine where she works as an assistant, is not a pleasant one in the Editor-in-Chief Claudia Davenport and her assistant Liza, Katie's boss, treating people in general, including staff, like garbage unless it otherwise serves their needs. The first day that Ella helps Katie with an important fashion shoot at the magazine coincides with Derek Colby's first day there, Colby Publishing, his father Roger Colby's company, the magazine's parent company, assigning him to deal with the magazine's declining revenues, both in advertising and subscriptions, work he has done with other magazines under the Colby banner. Derek secretly asks Ella for a crash course in fashion design to assist in this task at the magazine, she his choice of teacher due to her knowledge of fashion in general, and she seemingly not being intimidated by him which most people tend to be in being a Colby in combination with his good looks resulting in he placing number seven of the most eligible bachelors in New York City. In spending time with Ella, Derek can see the revenue potential of the magazine expanding into the plus sized market and seemingly starts to fall for her in the process in wanting to do one of the first articles in this vein on her design career, much against the wishes of both Claudia and Liza. Beyond whether Derek is able to change the magazine's fortunes with this new direction, what happens between Ella and Derek will depend on whether Ella herself is confident enough in herself and Derek, who generally can have any woman he wants on his arm.—Huggo

　　妈妈,母亲大人,娘亲,老妈妈去世后，玛丽（米莎•巴顿 Mischa Barton 饰）就被爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲送到了寄宿学校。在那里，她相识,明白,明了,知晓,理解,认知,懂得了两个室友，杜丽（杰茜卡•帕尔 Jessica Paré 饰）和宝丽（派珀•佩拉博 Piper Perabo 饰）。杜丽和宝丽天真活泼，性格开朗，很快，内向忧郁的玛丽就被她们所感染，三人成了好伙伴,好友,挚友,密友。不久，玛丽就发现杜丽和宝丽两人原来是一对恋人，玛丽觉得这一切都很正常，也就和她们欢乐,愉快,欢喜,欢乐,愉快,欣喜,喜悦,欢畅,喜悦,欣喜的日常,生存,生计,日子下去。然而一次杜丽的妹妹来找她时发现了姐姐的秘密，于是，流言起始,开端,肇始,启始流传。杜丽不堪忍受，疏远了宝丽，结交了新的男友。而宝丽却是不屈不挠，持续,延续,存续,连续着自己对杜丽的爱。

　　十九世纪中期，一场致命的天灾几乎毁了法国的丝绸工业，受法国丝绸商人巴达比欧（阿尔佛雷德·莫利纳 饰）所托，退役军人哈维（迈克尔·彼特 饰）离去,分离,离别,离别,分别,分离,别离,分散,远离,分离爱妻海琳（凯拉·奈特莉 饰），赴日购买蚕种。在当时，这并不是一件容易的事，由于处在幕府末期的日本正实行闭关锁国政策，一切交易只能在暗中进行。当时势力较大的贵族源十兵卫（役所广司 饰）同意于哈维做这笔交易，但在商谈中，哈维却被十兵卫的小妾（芦名星 饰）所吸引，尽管两人语言不通，但宿命一样的爱情还是起始,开端,肇始,启始了。随着哈维的四次旅程，两人之间的感情越来越深。
　　远在法国的海琳，靠做教师带着孩子,男孩,少年,男童艰辛度日。丈夫的远行，总是让她担心不已。随着时间的推移，海琳渐渐发现哈维似乎有一个异国情人……