离开部队之后，以利亚凯恩再次回到他的特种部队。由Marcus米切尔招募回美国中央情报局。凯恩的技能是远程狙击，马库斯的承诺，中情局将信息提供给凯恩并为之组建他的小团队。凯恩得到一系列高难度错杀任务，中央情报局的一般特工不能完成。马库斯承诺配合凯恩，引导目标他进入狙杀范围。并将目标的身份透露给凯恩团队。凯恩与其它两个受过训练的新兵组成行动小组，完成任务。最终驱动凯恩的不只是生意，也有个人的原因。
20岁的上流社会男孩哈洛（Bud Cort 巴德•库特 饰）对死亡异常迷恋，喜欢伪装自杀吓唬母亲，热衷参加葬礼，甚至购买了一辆灵车。母亲习以为常，却也不堪忍受，因此催促哈洛早日成家，成熟起来。在他人的葬礼上，哈洛认识了79岁的穆德（Ruth Gordon 露丝•高登 饰），一个与他有着相同爱好的老妇人，从此走入慕德奇妙多彩的世界。 开朗搞怪的慕德使阴郁的哈洛逐渐开朗，并最终向她展开心扉。哈洛的死亡游戏接连吓跑多个应征女孩，忍无可忍的母亲决定让他参军，他和慕德却设计摆脱了兵役困扰。两个忘年交的朋友越走越近……
Marg Duffield (Lee Remick) is the Maine wife of Al (Joseph Sommer) whose daughter Peg (Marlee Matlin) is deaf. Peg's husband is killed in a car accident on the way to visit the Maine house, and the Duffield's take in Peg's six year old daughter, Lisa, while Peg recovers. Since Lisa is a speaking child, Marg thinks of her the way she wanted Peg to be, and seeks guardian custody. Remick's role is secondary to Matlin's, though she is presented as a tragic figure, particularly as Al refuses to help her plan to gain Lisa. Peg's deafness is said to be from a childhood case of spinal meningitis, and the teleplay by Louisa Burns-Bisogno, with story by Louisa and Tom Bisogno, reduces Remick to a textbook mother who is self-hating from guilt and therefore cannot love her own daughter. In a memorable scene, Peg angrily signs her exit to Marg, since Marg has refused to learn sign language, though Peg has learned to speak for her mother. The treatment uses the Tennesee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, for therapy, to help Peg overcome her grief and also Marg `lose her unicorn horn' and embrace her daughter. Whilst Peg choosing to act in this play may seem an odd choice for someone grieving, what is more noticable is that Matlin is far too more glamourous to be believable as Laura. The Bisogno's include Michael O'Keefe as Dan, Peg's deceased husband's best friend and director of Actors Theatre for the Deaf, to offer Peg a new romantic interest, and thankfully she rebukes his protestations of love. Although his opinion may be influenced by his `crush', Dan tells Peg that being different is better than being normal, since the normal ones are as `common as weeds'. This philosophy reads as rather Nietzschean, on the level of artists not being restricted to the common moral code. Director Karen Arthur either has those signing also speaking or those signing being translated for the audience, though in one scene the sound of lapping waves drowns out the dialogue between Dan and Peg. She also gives Matlin some good moments, one being her scream of horror when she hears the news of the death of her husband, and another when she chases Remick down a flight of steps, hitting her.
露安（米歇尔·菲佛 Michelle Pfeiffer 饰）曾经是海军陆战队中的一员，在军营里度过了九个年头，练就了一身非凡的本领和一颗钢铁般的心脏。退伍后，对教育充满了热情的露安决定成为一名教师，准备将她从军期间学习到的精神发扬光大。谁知道刚到学校的第一天露安便知道自己遇见了难啃的骨头，原来她所教导的，竟然是一群丝毫不遵守规章制度的问题学生。 在经历了起初的挫败后，露安很快就调整了战术，她发现这些孩子表面上桀骜不驯，但其实内心却有着向善的火种。凯丽的意外怀孕（布鲁克琳·哈里斯 Bruklin Harris 饰）、埃米利奥（Wade Dominguez 饰）无法自控的暴力倾向、洛尔（雷诺里·圣地亚哥 Renoly Santiago 饰）的自卑和懦弱，且看露安如何用真情和爱心帮助这些迷途的羔羊找到回家的路。
