Plot Summary:Having recently turned fifty, Marion feels that she has led a so far blessed life. The well-respected Dean of Philosophy at a women's college, she is currently on sabbatical to write her latest book. Although her first husband Sam died tragically fourteen years ago from a mixture of alcohol and pills, she has recently remarried to Ken, who, married at the time, pursued her, while Ken's writer friend, Larry, also professed his love for her. She has a good relationship with her step-daughter Laura, seemingly better than Laura has with either Ken or Laura's own volatile mother, Kathy. Between her and her brother Paul, Marion always had the attention of their academic father. And she and Ken have a wide circle of friends with who they regularly and willingly socialize. But a series of incidents with these people in her life makes Marion wonder about the decisions that she's made, most specifically whether her cerebral and judgmental nature has been alienating to those around her. One of these incidents is the surprise reunion she has with her best childhood friend, an actress named Claire. But arguably the most illuminating incidents involve encounters with Hope, a despondent patient of her workspace neighbor psychiatrist, whose therapy sessions Marion can hear through the building's ventilation system. The questions become if Marion will fully be able to comprehend the extent to which these decisions have negatively affected her life and relationships, and if so if she can make the necessary changes at this stage in her life path to be more fulfilled.
为了写作,哲学老师玛丽昂(吉娜·罗兰兹 Gena Rowlands 饰)租了一间工作室。某日,正在专心工作的玛丽昂听到排风口里传来了谈话声,原来,隔壁是一个心理诊所,鬼使神差之下,玛丽昂开始偷听起了患者对医生的倾诉。患者是名叫霍普(米亚·法罗 Mia Farrow 饰)的女子,通过霍普的倾诉,玛丽昂陷入了深深的沉思。 在众人眼里,玛丽昂是一个事业有成婚姻幸福的成功女人,但日日压抑在心中的究竟是怎样的情感和念想,这只有她自己才知道。霍普的痛苦倾诉勾起了她审视自身的欲望,而和旧时好友的重逢让玛丽昂越发觉得富足的生活早已千疮百孔。是将错就错还是重新来过?站在五十岁的人生交叉口,迷惘的玛丽昂不知该如何选择。