茫茫西部,一个路经农场的过客肖恩(艾伦·拉德 Alan Ladd 饰)引起了主人斯塔雷特一家的警觉。原来当地恶徒雷克一伙为了吞并自耕农的土地,不停骚扰斯塔雷特等居民,男主人乔·斯塔雷特弄清了肖恩的身份后,将美丽的妻子玛利亚和儿子乔伊介绍给对方,并邀请肖恩留在自己的农场帮忙。肖恩入住小镇不久,就在镇上的酒馆遭到了雷克一伙的折辱,自耕农们不愿放弃辛劳工作换来的家园,集合商讨对付雷克的办法,最终却只能旁观肖恩肉搏雷克的众打手。肖恩在农场辛勤工作,并不时传授给乔伊战斗的方法,另一方面,雷克仍然不放弃赶走斯塔雷特等人的计划,肖恩决定奋力反抗……
In this powerful documentary, Mama Yang, an 84-year-old woman living in New York, finds herself in correspondence with 45 high security prison inmates she views as her own children. Most are Chinese American immigrants, and see in Mama Yang a mother figure they never knew before they stepped through prison walls.
For Mama Yang though, the story is about more than Christian charity. She had already lived a full life in Taiwan when her husband died at age sixty and her son lost their house in a financial blunder. She moved to the US to start anew and lives with a Taiwanese American granddaughter that remains distant. In a film marked by family separations, Mama Yang writes letters – whether to the incarcerated or to her own granddaughter – to heal lifetimes of wounds.