13岁的艾米(安娜·帕奎因 Anna Paquin 饰)在一场交通事故中失去了母亲,只好被送到与母亲离异多年的父亲(杰夫·丹尼尔斯 Jeff Daniels 饰)身边。父亲经营着一座农场,整日琢磨各种稀奇古怪的发明,面对已经长大的艾米难免不知所措,二人最初的相处生疏而隔阂。艾米收拾好丧母之痛,也努力适应农场生活,一日在一片树丛发现一窝被遗弃的大雁蛋,她小心将它们捧回家里,并成功孵出一窝小雁,但是出于政府野雁不可以家养的规定,艾米必须要令这些小雁放归自然。父亲想出了奇妙的主意帮助艾米,他动手为她制作了一架滑翔机,让她带着小雁学会飞翔,然后在迁徙季节一路护送“雁妈妈”艾米带领小雁们飞向安大略湖,在这个过程中,一对父女的心也开始紧紧连在一起……
Min Ji-suk runs a "ticket bar"where customers can purchase tickets for certain "services"in the town of Sokcho in Gangwon-do. She hires Miss Yang (Ahn So-young), Miss Hong (Lee Hye-young), and Se-young (Jeon Se-young) through the employment agency. Miss Yang and Miss Hong, who are well experienced in this type of business, are used to accepting propositions from customers. But Se-young, who is dating a college student named Min-su, rejects all requests for sexual favors. When Min-su professes to having problems with his tuition and finances, Se-young reassures him that she will procure the necessary funds for him. When the bar's clientele begins to dwindle because of Se-young, Ji-suk reprimands her severely. Se-young develops a close relationship with a Captain Pak and even allows him to sleep with her. She asks Captain Pak to find Min-su employment on a boat, but when Min-su comes to Sokcho for his new job, he sees how Se-young has been making her living. Shocked, he turns his back on the job and leaves. When he eventually returns to Sokcho, he scathingly denounces Se-young's morality and severs their relationship. Decades ago, Ji-suk had stumbled into the bar business in a desperate effort to support her husband, who was serving time in prison; she later left him voluntarily out of shame and moral degradation. Concerned that Se-young will end up with the same fate, Ji-suk asks Min-su to meet with her. She begs him not to abandon Se-young, but he flatly refuses. Ji-suk reacts by pushing Min-su into the sea, and suffers a mental breakdown that lands her in a psychiatric institution.
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself “already dead.”