A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

Tarina agronomi Elmer Oraksen ja Margit Kasken rakkaudesta talvisodan kynnyksellä ja sen seurauksista rauhan myötä. Sodan jälkeen Margitin on vaikea elättää itseään ja isätöntä poikaansa Juhanaa, joka ei sopeudu kouluun vaan ajautuu töihin kauppapuutarhalle ja mestari Jurrikan komentoon. Sotavankeudesta palannut ja muistinsa menettänyt agronomi taas kohtaa menneisyytensä onnekkaiden sattumien kautta.

Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.

Anna flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father’s mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover, an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit, the couple’s domestic tranquillity is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother to help support their child.

After getting an abortion at a local clinic, unwed Beijing TV anchor Lu Yun decides to focus her next special report on women's reproductive issues, working at that clinic to research her topic.

Hsiao-Peng, an unmarried mother is sent to a maternity home for young single mothers. During her time in the maternity home, she slowly overcomes the depressive thoughts and builds strong bonds with Wen-Yueh, Ko-Hsin, and Madam Pai. After moving out the maternity home, Hsiao-Peng lives with Wen-Yueh and Ko-Hsin in an apartment where they continue to be each other’s support. The two main settings of the film, the maternity home and the apartment, build an atypical family model. It is a tender coming-of-age tale where women are empowered with the right to think for themselves.