53岁华裔移民凤霞（陈冲 饰）在加拿大蒙特利尔已经生活了大半辈子，人生被“妻子、母亲、移民”的身份牢牢捆绑：一段早已失去爱意的婚姻、需要照料的家庭、中西文化的夹缝，让她活成了别人期待的样子，也压抑了真实的自我。直到她遇见充满活力的年轻魁北克女孩卡米尔（夏洛特·奥宾 饰），一段意外的亲密关系唤醒了她埋藏多年的欲望与渴望。凤霞被迫直面内心的渴望，在家庭责任与自我解放、传统束缚与自由人生之间，做出艰难却决绝的选择，完成一场迟来的中年觉醒与自我救赎。

　　Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds;  a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he's fallen even harder back.  But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City.  To Gordon's dismay her future boss also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity Chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show.  Good luck Gordon.

　　A teenager who abandoned a violent Peru in the 90s, reunites in Montreal with this father, who now has a new Canadian family.