Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.

Chrissi has spent years abroad proving that she can handle cars as a stunt driver. When she has to return to her father’s childhood village after a serious accident, she is caught up in the tormenting memories of her family history. But her father is still trapped in his pain and unable to be there for her. In desperation, he offers her money so that she can build a life elsewhere, independent of the German social system – the relationship between the two is about to be put to the test…

In 1968 California, a Marine officer’s wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.