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Li Dong Hai is rushed off his feet every day at his job with the Disabled Federation. He helps everyone and never asks for anything in return. His son thinks Li Dong Hai's selflessness is extreme, en example of which arises when Huang Kun, a poor paraplegic, proposes marriage to Wang Jing. The girl's mother objects but Li Dong Hai comes to the rescue with 200,000 renminbi that he had saved for his own son's marriage. His wife complains but, unexpextedly, his son supports his decision. About to welcome the new couple, however, Li Dong Hai gets some bad health news...
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ZH

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.