At the age of 16, Martha Coolidge was raped by a fellow student. This experience, and in particular the emotions and rhetoric in its aftermath, forms the starting point for this Brechtian film, in which Coolidge re-enact…

贫苦的冉·阿让（休·杰克曼 Hugh Jackman 饰）为了挨饿的孩子去偷面包，结果被判处19年的苦役。出狱后，走投无路的他偷走了收留他过夜的主教的银器潜逃，被警察捉回。主教声称银器是送给他的，使他免于被捕。主教的言行感化了他，他化名…