坐在轮椅上，之后的人生只能靠它代步的蒙特（摩根•弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰）对人生不再抱有什么希望。曾经的知名作家因为妻子的离世而灵感不再，整日与酒为伴的蒙特让侄子对他放不下心来，于是为他找了一个僻静小镇的小木屋，让他在这里散心养生。搬到这来的蒙特起初对什么都没有的小镇很不满，终日酗酒。而隔壁奥尼尔家的三个小女孩及她们的母亲（维吉妮娅•马德森 Virginia Madsen 饰）引来了蒙特的注意，随着和她们接触的加深，蒙特喜欢上了这一家，从中也渐渐拾得了生的乐趣；而奥尼奥家的三姐妹从蒙特身上
In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.
The last year of life of the Italian-French painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) who died with 36 years, was played by Gérard Philipe, who was lethally sick during the shooting of this movie and died shortly after its release, 1959, with 36 years - on on
