- 上个世纪七十年代末,某城市的烟厂女工李萍,怀着对婚姻的梦想,在香烟盒里塞进了一张小小的纸条。正在她等待的时候,军官吴天亮出现在她的面前,她跟着这个男人来到了部队驻地,开始了婚姻生活。婚姻生活跟想象是不同的,但是她和丈夫的部下王小毛成了知心的朋友。不久吴天亮和小毛同时转业,分到了铁道部参加青藏铁路的修建工作。由于吴天亮将精力全部转移到工作中,李萍的生活变的平淡乏味。在一次单独回家探亲的时候,李萍决定去见见王小毛。二人相遇,难舍难分,李萍向吴天亮提出离婚。不久,李萍和王小毛再婚,女儿出生,日子过得幸福和美。小毛四处举借,筹款购买了汽车,成为出租车司机。怎奈好景不长,在一次与歹徒搏斗的时候,小毛牺牲了。而吴天亮的再婚妻子也牺牲在青藏铁路的工地上。两人带着各自的儿女再次相遇,李萍不由得对自己的幸福观产生了深深的思考。
- Barbara is a very rich girl who falls in love with Norman Phiffier, a poor young man. She doesn't tell him who she really is and prepares to marry him. But, Mrs. Tuttle (Barbara's mother) doesn't want her daughter to mary such a poor man. So, she hires Norman at one of her big stores, and gives him the most difficult and disgusting works. She hopes that seeing Norman humiliated, Barbara will finally leave him. But things don't work exactly this way...