艾玛·罗伯茨将主演爱情喜剧片《关于命运》(About Fate)，与她合作了《假日约会》的蒂芙尼·保尔森写剧本，马里乌斯·韦斯伯格(《爱在大都市》《希特勒完蛋了》)执导。 讲述一男一女相信爱情，但似乎永远无法找到爱的真谛。而在狂风暴雨的新年前夜，发生了疯狂的转折，喜剧和混乱随之而来。
鬼子的飞机炸死了去镇上卖鱼的爹妈。那年，姐姐大荷花十四岁，弟弟小荷花十一岁。爹妈死后，大荷花担负起照顾弟弟。弟弟逢人就问：“鬼子为啥炸死我爹妈”，没有人能回答他。姐弟俩开始以自己的方式复仇。
Unemployed Czech-speaking writer Nicholas Whistler thinks he's got a job visiting Prague for a bit of industrial espionage. In fact he is now in the employ of British Intelligence. His pretty chauffeuse on arrival behind the Iron Curtain, Comrade Simonova, is herself a Czech agent. Just as well she's immediately attracted to 007's unwitting replacement.
從小一起長大的醒悟、清標和佩君，三人是青梅竹馬，長大後各奔東西，醒悟混跡黑道，為幫派大哥打天下佔地盤，再一次替大哥圍勢時，沒想到對方竟是同鄕好友清標，多年不見，童年好友竟然都在刀口上討生活；清標拿人錢財因此無法顧慮兩人童年情誼，跟醒悟打起來，被醒悟誤殺一刀，警察隨即趕到，全部人被逮入獄。
Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past, he has invented a very ingenious plan to get rid of his four helpers: he gets them all to unknowingly kill each other in the course of a single night.
三个深受那个时期漫画意识形态浸染的美国男孩在美国海边“捡到”到一个苏联水兵而发生的一些列离奇故事，他们的关系也随着情节的变化忽远忽近，最终引向了一个有反思意义的结局。
