Fleeing from the twin horrors of prospective marriage and the baleful Aunt Agatha, Bertie sails to New York with Jeeves, where he hopes to lie low but instead he is charged with minding the ultra-shy mother's boy Wilmot, son of Lady Malvern, and showing him the high life. Oddly enough Wilmot takes only too well to the night-spots of Manhattan, wearing Bertie out in the process....。影片把焦点集中在城市——以抗战时代中六个最重要的城市为主角:北平、上海、武汉、重庆、昆明、延安。在八年抗战不同的阶段,这些城市扮演了特殊的角色,经历了不同的命运,那么生活在其中的普通人又经历了怎样的日常?他们如何在战局的变化、物价的波动的日常中吃喝拉撒睡,打发那黑暗中的一时一刻?如何在胜利那一刻尽情渲泄自己压抑已久的激情?如何在胜利后收拾心情踏上重整家园之路?。