Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.

在日本的南端的冲绳，一群生活在小镇上的高中生们，因为热爱音乐将他们紧紧凝聚在一起。原本有望被东京的音乐製作公司签下，正当迎接光明的未来时，因为一场飞来横祸而失去了方向。而让停下的时针再度往下走的，是一首未填词demo，与一位住在美军基地的少女。为将未了的『心意』传达到围栏的另一端，这群四分五裂的年轻人乐队，再度背起了乐器…

林肯（丹泽尔?华盛顿 饰）因为公务导致全身瘫痪，他曾是享誉一时的侦探，破案无数，但自从他瘫痪后他便把自己封闭起来。这次，他因为一宗神秘的杀人案，受到了纽约警察的邀请帮忙，刚开始林肯是拒绝邀请的，但看到案情后便对此案产生了情绪。纽约最近发生了神秘的碎尸案，凶手还故意留下证据挑战警方。巡逻警艾米利亚（安吉丽娜?茱莉 饰）在最后一次巡逻中发现了一具被肢解的尸体，可是当她做出一系列大胆的推测的时候，同僚们都不愿理她，认为她不过是名籍籍无名的巡警。可是艾米利亚的敏感与勇敢受到了林肯的赏识，他要求与这名新手一起突破案件。两人出奇的合作愉快，终于了解到了杀手是有暴力倾向的，而且杀人前都会周密的安排。经过他们的默契又能否成功捉拿变态杀人犯呢？

影片故事围绕在东京电视台担任播音工作的児(ér)岛贵子(夏帆饰)展开，由于她处于人生低潮期，从而被降职去采访奇祭活动。在此期间贵子不断成长。