50年代，建國初期，從事諜報工作的701機關的偵聽局突然失去台灣方面的電訊，所以要在全國各地尋找合適的偵聽員。而最合適的人選則是曾為宋慶玲調音的調音師羅三耳。行動局成員張學玲(周迅 飾)被派往找他。在誤打誤撞的情況下，張學玲才發現羅三耳身邊的一個盲眼隨從阿炳(梁朝偉 飾)更加是她想…

Jesse Hallum sells the family farm to see that his daughter receives the medical care she needs at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. The big city challenges him, though, especially when his illiteracy is exposed.

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.

Too often, if a child is illiterate at the end of third grade, they will fall behind forever. By nine years old, many children are already SENTENCED to the cycles of poverty, prison, and addiction that have devastated generations before them. Our story begins with a heartbreaking look at adults who never learned to read and ends with the children who still have a chance.

A functionally illiterate factory foreman (Dennis Weaver) loses his job after refusing a promotion that requires reading.