影片的故事發生在波士頓，巴恩斯扮演的尼克是一位意大利裔的美國年輕人，躊躇滿志的他加入波士頓黑手黨，決心開創一番事業，卻發現這個犯罪組織早已不復昔日之勇。　　于是尼克背著他的老板（《落水狗》、《壞中尉》男星哈威·凱特爾飾），自立門戶，擴張版圖，希望重塑往昔的輝煌。一手金錢，一手美人（莉頓·梅斯特飾），尼克完全不知道自己正走在危險的懸崖邊。

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

佐藤保和佐藤幸性格截然不同卻莫名投緣，一路從相識交往走到結婚生子。保曾多次參加司法考試卻屢屢落榜，沒想到陪他備考的幸卻先通過了考試，成為了職業律師。一邊是邋遢的律師妻子，一邊是被育兒壓得喘不過氣的落榜丈夫——這對夫妻之間維持著微妙的平衡，在歡笑與心酸中勾勒出一段真實的愛情故事。本片主演為憑借《惠子，凝視》獲得第77屆每日電影最佳女主角的岸井雪乃，以及憑借《利己主義者》獲得第78屆每日電影最佳男配角的宮澤冰魚。兩人的默契演繹為影片注入真實的情感張力，折射出現代社會中人與人之間的溝通困境，探討了人們與“他人”之間的理解與妥協。

　　弘治七年，皇上在全國范圍內大選妃子。來在同村的兩位少女鴛鴦（黃婉君 飾）和朱朱（黃婉伶 飾）相助于危險的夜路，遂互稱姐妹，共赴皇宮。　　對于少女們來說，如果成功當選皇妃，無論富貴貧賤都可飛上枝頭當鳳凰，自然競爭激烈，條件也很苛刻。不光自身條件要好，還要經過嚴格的培訓與層層考試。但更加殘酷其實是她們各自之間的勾心斗角、爾虞我詐。　　面對種種的困難與危險，鴛鴦與珠珠能否闖過難關？而面對這殘酷的競爭，她們的友情是否會改變呢？