危机解密

　　两个原互不相识的陌生人，但共同点就是他们在各自的生活都已是筋疲力竭。正当他们对自己的人生感到无望且束手无策之际，却在水象变幻莫测的密西根湖中心相遇了…。

　　Ryan is a womanizing stockbroker whose unethical business practices cost him his job and his trader's license. Unable to find another job, he is forced to move in with his equally self-involved (and completely oblivious) girlfriend, Cindy, an insensitive advice columnist on the cusp of losing her own job due to her poor advice and slow work habits. Finding that the truth behind his moving in has nothing to do with romance, Cindy runs off with another man. Ryan decides to stay in the apartment and earn a living by doing Cindy's job. Ryan establishes himself with Cindy's editor, Page, as Cindy's go-fer, collecting Cindy's paychecks and mail and delivering "her" columns. Initially as hopelessly inept as Cindy in giving advice, he nearly gets the column canceled. However, he rapidly grows into the job and the combination of forced introspection, research and the growing knowledge that he is touching other people's lives transforms him. The column becomes an amazing success. Ryan finds his initially superficial attraction to Page growing into love, but he cannot reveal his feelings while he is a deceptive fraud. Meanwhile, Cindy becomes aware of "her" growing fame, and returns to cash in, at the same time that the owner of a rival newspaper chain attempts to force Page to sell "Cindy's" column to him.

　　Tae-gyu and Ji-hye get married. Two young lovers dreamed of the ideal married life which each had respect for each other. But honeymoon is soon over as each comes to realize that the other isn't quite what they thought. The liberal woman would like to talk of sex with frankness and ease. The conservative man can't get rid of his traditional sense of superiority. They end up hurting each other and decide to get a (limited) divorce. Once apart, they each begin to feel empty without the other, and realized they need to make an effort to understand each other.

　　阿尔文史崔特先生（理查德·法恩斯沃斯 Richard Farnsworth 饰）已经七十多岁了，他不仅个性孤僻古怪，视力状况也每况愈下。史崔特先生和女儿罗斯（茜茜·斯派塞克 Sissy Spacek 饰）相依为命，父女两人的日子虽然过得清贫，但也不失宁静和乐趣。
　　哥哥莱尔（哈利·戴恩·斯坦通 Harry Dean Stanton 饰）病重的消息打破了史崔特先生家中的平静气氛。虽然由于曾经的矛盾，兄弟两人已经将近十年没有见过面了，但如今史崔特先生已然步入了老年，经历过生命力的种种变幻和无常，史崔特先生决定，是时修补一下兄弟之间的裂痕了。就这样，史崔特先生驾驶着自己的割草机上路了，目的地是300英里之外的威斯康辛州。