这部电影讲述了印度外交官 J. P. Singh 的真实故事。当寻求庇护的女性乌兹玛·艾哈迈德抵达大使馆时，他的世界发生了翻天覆地的变化。乌兹玛声称自己是一名印度公民，她被绑架到布内尔，并被迫嫁给了一名巴基斯坦男子，名叫塔希尔，是普什图族人。她还有一个患有地中海贫血症的女儿，是她之前一段失败的婚姻所生。她原本以为塔希尔是真心爱她，所以她去了巴基斯坦见他，结果却被带到一个偏远的村庄，并遭到虐待。随着紧张局势的升级，辛格必须在复杂的国际外交、巴基斯坦的法律体系以及来自印度和巴基斯坦政府的压力之间周旋，以解决此事，并帮助乌兹玛安全地通过瓦加边境离开。这部电影深入探讨了当个人生活与国家事务交织在一起时，外交官所面临的道德和伦理挑战
作为两对相处了十余年的朋友，莎利（朱迪·戴维斯 Judy Davis 饰）和杰克（西德尼·波拉克 Sydney Pollack 饰）之间的和平分手让加贝（伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰）和朱迪（米亚·法罗 Mia Farrow 饰）夫妇感到不可思议。当看见杰克迅速的另结新欢之后，原本心平气和的萨利感到怒不可遏，为了安抚朋友受伤的感情，朱迪将自己的同事麦克尔（连姆·尼森 Liam Neeson 饰）介绍给了她，后者对萨利的狂热却让朱迪的内心里很不是滋味。 另一边，才华横溢的学生雷恩（朱丽叶特·刘易斯 Juliette Lewis 饰）吸引了作为老师的加贝的注意，尽管想在婚姻中保持忠诚，但他向往雷恩的心却像一列火车般无法回头。同时，和新欢相处并不愉快的杰克发现自己对旧爱念念不舍，而此时的萨利正和麦克尔打得火热。就是这样四个在职场上春风得意的成年人，他们的感情生活却是一团糟。导演伍迪·艾伦运用大量的对话探讨了夫妻和男女之间感情的始末，将现代人的情感和生活状态描绘的淋漓尽致。
Hospital physician June Lowe and successful author Rick Lowe have a seemingly perfect marriage, the one sticking point between them being the issue of children. Rick wants June to give up her career so that they can start a family, and while June is not averse to the notion of children, not only does she not want to give up her career but expand into writing herself, she not understanding why Rick couldn'tshouldn't be the primary caregiver anyway in already working from home. In the process, June feels like Rick totally dismisses her feelings. When Rick receives a blackmail letter for something he totally denies as truth, June gets implicated in a double homicide. June quickly realizes that Rick is trying to frame her, he the actual murderer. As June needs to evade both Rick and the police and has no one to confide in, including her generally loving sister Maggie Porter who believes the accusations of she being a murderer, June not only has to discover why Rick killed the two victims but why he is trying to frame her. When she believes she's discovered what's going on, June enters a dangerous cat and mouse game with Rick, it not always clear who is the cat and who is the mouse.—Huggo
