故事围绕一个圣诞节蛋糕展开，讲述了战争年代天主教女子学院里人性的纯真、贪婪和幻想。“pupil”一词来源于拉丁语“pupilla”，即小女孩。
Follow the story of a 16-year-old who finds he can see the whole future of a romantic relationship when he kisses a girl for the first time.
清晨的公园里，老人格里慢慢的铺开棋盘，把棋子一个一个的放上去，“对弈”就这样开始了。 两个老人一个狡猾奸诈，一个憨厚老实。一盘棋局，铁马金刀，煞是热闹。然而憨厚的老人很快陷入了僵局，仅剩一子，老实的他竟急至心脏病发。狡猾的老人也不由的担心起来。谁知这才是胜负的真正开端，原来狡猾也有失误，老实也会耍滑。 老人格里的对弈中，哪个才是真正的赢家？
徐大燕，虽自幼生得标致，但却因为性格强势，持家精打细算，容不得他人占自己家半点便宜，闻名村里村外，导致已到婚嫁之龄未嫁在家。不平常女子人生也必然不平常，成家后的徐大燕，凭借精密与能干使得原本穷破的家，日渐变得富足与温馨，更是在其短暂的一生留下诸多感人事迹。
一名侦探小说作家（Robert Downey Jr. 饰）躺在医院病榻上构思新作情节：一名愤世嫉俗的私家侦探一到夜晚摇身一变成为乐团主唱歌手，故事主人翁被卷入1950年代洛杉矶一宗妓女凶杀案……随着病情加剧，他渐渐无法分辨故事与现实，精神状态陷入疯狂边缘……
像每年夏天一样，小莎乐美都会回到她坐落在葡萄牙山区的家乡度假。当假期在无忧无虑的气氛中开始时，她深爱的祖母却突然去世了。当大人们在葬礼上感到难过时，莎乐美却被那个被认为是女巫的人的灵魂所困扰。
Last days of 1941 summer, the era of Obligation, during the famine atmosphere of the Second World War. In the middle of all this poverty and turmoil, there are two poets in their early twenties: Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rustu Onur. They have been carrying tuberculosis germs in their lungs and love of poetry in their hearts for years. Two poets who have the constant habit of making bets on things that they do not own, make a bet on a beautiful girl. They will both write a poem for her and whichever Suzan likes, the other will fade from the scene..
