新中国成立后，我国组建了第一支火车女司机培训队，学员来自祖国各地。她们的教练、老司机陆师傅（苏绘 饰）重男轻女，不认为这帮整天叽叽喳渣的妇女能成什么气侯。孙桂兰（舒绣文 饰）自幼没上过多少学，学习很吃力，领导上派小张（叶小珠 饰）帮助她。好强的冯小梅（赵抒音 饰）决心向孙桂兰发起挑战，虚心的孙桂兰欣然应允。结果在机车检查分组比赛中，冯小梅拉了全组后腿，孙桂兰则大获全胜。后来，冯小梅在驾车路考中突发意外，孙桂兰沉着冷静地排除了险情。通过耳闻目睹，冯小梅和陆师傅各自检讨了自身的不良思想和错误。不久后，她们成长为合格的女司机......

莫晓枫在一次冒险中出了意外去世，在暗恋了10年的莫晓枫的葬礼上阳艺雪得到了他留给自己的遗物，一个装有满满书信的“神秘木盒”，捧着这些倾注爱意的信笺，阳艺雪思绪纷飞，尘封的记忆被打开，她后悔当年与爱人失之交臂。而“神秘木盒”具有神奇穿越功能，可与过去时空连接，阳艺雪通过不断地与19岁的自己鸿雁传书，欲追回错失的爱。

故事发生在一间女子监狱之中。施菲菲（李翠云 饰）、秋子（马翎雁 饰）、阿四（赵娜娜 饰）和桃花（廖东妍 饰）等人都是被关押在此处的囚犯。这一天，她们迎来了一位新狱友丁静儿（赵薇 饰），除了施菲菲外，所有人都对初来乍到的丁静儿充满了敌意。某天，施菲菲的男友郑英儿（郭育明 饰）将一个婴儿放在了监狱门口，他为了出国而选择了抛弃这个可怜的孩子。无奈之下，分队长收留了这个孩子。施菲菲得知郑英儿在国外和别人结了婚，绝望之中吞下农药企图自杀。所幸得到了丁静儿的救助，才保住了性命。这一场意外也让施菲菲感受到了生命的可贵，她决定挺直了腰杆，坚强的活下去。

Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.