二战期间,身为犹太人的女主人公被关进纳粹集中营。在那里她和一个在囚犯身上做人体实验的医生发生了一段感情纠葛,也因此保住了性命。数十年过后,女主人公和两个儿子生活在一起。那段曾经的往事一直困扰着她,同时两个性格迥异的儿子,也各有各的烦恼。当他们知道母亲的过去后,又会有如何表现呢?During World War II, a Jewish woman saves her life thanks to a love affair with a doctor in charge of human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp. The woman then marries and moves to New York, where she raises two emotionally stunted sons. The eldest son battles his sense of disconnection from life while working at a scam modeling agency, where he befriends a charming young co-worker who begins to restore in him a sense of excitement and purpose. The neurotic younger son is locked in a compulsive, co-dependent relationship with his mother.