该剧以新颖的手法再现纪实风格,更生活化的展现新时代背景下现代人的情感故事,以全新视角讲述一个个家庭,一幕幕人生,在经历了贫富贵贱、爱恨纠葛之后,伤痕累累的她们……。母亲去世的消息传来,令女孩帕斯林(斯嘉丽·约翰逊 Scarlett Johansson 饰)回去乡下老家,没想到在母亲留下的旧屋住着两个古怪的人,一个是落魄文学教授鲍比·朗( 约翰·特拉沃尔塔 John Travolta 饰),是个衰老、邋遢的酗酒男人,和打算为他写传记的学生兰森(盖布瑞·马赫特 Gabriel Macht 饰)。三人暂时居住在一起,从鲍比·朗的口中,帕斯林听到许多母亲的过去,也让她找到母亲曾经的情感——这个始终写歌、最终吸毒过量去世的母亲,生命中的情歌都是写给谁的。新奥尔良乡下的悠闲足以让时光静止,这个老男人身上已经看不到将来,年轻的帕斯林渐渐不堪忍受这一切,也慢慢发现自己和鲍比·朗真正的联系……。A girl is held hostage by a military group. Jimmy rescues her and takes her to an inn to heal. The people are distrusting of him at first but it ends up a family reunion. Jimmy's father has gone missing so he is looking for his uncle. Uncle owns this inn and the pretty young lady, Chang Ching-Ching, is his arranged bride since childhood. It's a small world.。