十八年前，徐江因抢劫后驾车逃窜，闯红灯时与拉货司机李天明的面包车相撞，引发车祸。徐江被警方逮捕，目睹车辆爆炸后，误以为年仅 4 岁的女儿徐梦瑶葬身火海，将仇恨归咎于李天明。而李天明在车祸中失去了自己的女儿李薇，却救下了徐梦瑶，为保护这个孩子，他隐瞒其身世，取名李若水，与她相依为命。十八年后，徐江出狱并建立徐氏集团，成为江城首富。他从未放弃对李天明的报复，找到李天明后对其百般折磨，最终将其打成植物人。为筹集李天明的医药费，李若水被迫答应徐江 “做他的女儿”，进入徐家和徐氏集团。在徐家，李若水遭遇徐江养女徐颖的嫉妒与针对。徐颖为争夺徐江的遗产，视李若水为眼中钉，多次设计陷害。

名导演维托里奥·德·西卡所导演的本片是一部群星喜剧戏，它可以分为三部。第一部讲述的是，一个在黑市里专门卖外国香烟的女人从未尝过铁窗的滋味，因为当时法律规定不逮捕怀孕的妇女和产后六个月的妇女。所以在产后，就催丈夫作爱，因此逃过了入狱的命运，不过最后因怀孕失败还是走进了监狱。第二部讲述一位富婆迷恋比她年轻的作家，二人一次开着高级轿车兜风，因二人气氛热烈而导致撞车，富婆顿觉索然无味，遂拦车扬长而去。第三部讲述一位高级妓女与一位神学院的学生相恋，妓女摆脱了恩客的纠缠，但经不住神学院学生的老父母恳求而不得不与学生分手。学生走后，其恩客仍被打入冷宫。本片分别以三个都市的风格为代表，充分地刻划出意大利人的气质，男女主角都有精湛的演出。

名导演德西卡的一部群戏，分为三部分。第一部讲述一个专门在黑市偷卖外国香烟的女人，从未尝过铁窗的滋味，因为当时法律规定不能逮捕怀孕的妇女和产后六个月的妇女。所以她在生产后就催丈夫做爱，逃过入狱的命运，不过最后因怀孕失败还是走进了监狱。第二部讲述一位富婆迷恋比她年轻的作家，他们有一次开着高级轿车兜风，因气氛热烈而导致撞车，富婆顿觉索然无味，遂拦车扬长而去。第三部讲述一位高级妓女与一位神学院的学生相恋。

Ashes contemplates love, pleasure, and the destruction of memory. The surroundings of everyday life are shared with extreme intimacy. For Apichatpong, Thailand, while full of beauty, is slowly collapsing into darkness. 　　“King Kong rarely barked. She had been with us since she was three months old. Every night she slept and looked around in her dreams. 　　We thought that our spirits were enriched by the fertile soil and the greenest leaves and the rarest insects and the abundance of humility. But came a day in March we woke up from our dream. The sky wept ashes. The rotten ground trembled as baby worms rose to taste the gray snow. Across the mountains the light of devotion shone and blinded our souls. The darkness was so bright we wept and shouted in silence. And we woke up again, and again. 　　We united like multiple King Kongs with no sound. Every heartbeat a baby was born with her mouth shut tight like a touch of two stones. With pleasure we lived in hope, and hoped to never wake up. A land of Nothing. We slept. We smiled. We ran."

Ashes contemplates love, pleasure, and the destruction of memory. The surroundings of everyday life are shared with extreme intimacy. For Apichatpong, Thailand, while full of beauty, is slowly collapsing into darkness. 　　“King Kong rarely barked. She had been with us since she was three months old. Every night she slept and looked around in her dreams. 　　We thought that our spirits were enriched by the fertile soil and the greenest leaves and the rarest insects and the abundance of humility. But came a day in March we woke up from our dream. The sky wept ashes. The rotten ground trembled as baby worms rose to taste the gray snow. Across the mountains the light of devotion shone and blinded our souls. The darkness was so bright we wept and shouted in silence. And we woke up again, and again. 　　We united like multiple King Kongs with no sound. Every heartbeat a baby was born with her mouth shut tight like a touch of two stones. With pleasure we lived in hope, and hoped to never wake up. A land of Nothing. We slept. We smiled. We ran."

贵族少年拉法尔在一次狂欢节上，结识了年轻美貌的姑娘盖列娜，两人一见钟情，并偷偷幽会，两人的私情被家人发现，拉法尔被父亲赶出家门。几年以后，拉法尔在哥哥好友的介绍下参加了秘密组织，见到了昔日情人盖列娜，盖列娜已嫁给秘密组织领导人。尽管如此，她仍深爱着拉法尔。一天夜里，两人被强盗抓住，盖列娜为保全自己，跳下深渊，拉法尔得救后被误认为是强盗，关押了很久后被放出，对生活失去了信心，后来拉法尔在好友的帮助下重新振作起来，并参加了波兰军团。 　　本片根据波兰著名批判现实主义作家热罗姆斯基（Stefan Zeromski ）的同名长篇小说改编，获戛纳电影节金棕榈提名。瓦依达在这个题材中所表现出的兴趣所在是十分明显的：他试图追索波兰民族意识的形成过程。此片引起了波兰知识界的热烈评论，许多人文科学界的权威和一些著名作家都发表了自己的看法，再此之前，几乎从来没有一部电影可使知识界产生如此广泛的反应。

贵族少年拉法尔在一次狂欢节上，结识了年轻美貌的姑娘盖列娜，两人一见钟情，并偷偷幽会，两人的私情被家人发现，拉法尔被父亲赶出家门。几年以后，拉法尔在哥哥好友的介绍下参加了秘密组织，见到了昔日情人盖列娜，盖列娜已嫁给秘密组织领导人。尽管如此，她仍深爱着拉法尔。一天夜里，两人被强盗抓住，盖列娜为保全自己，跳下深渊，拉法尔得救后被误认为是强盗，关押了很久后被放出，对生活失去了信心，后来拉法尔在好友的帮助下重新振作起来，并参加了波兰军团。 　　本片根据波兰著名批判现实主义作家热罗姆斯基（Stefan Zeromski ）的同名长篇小说改编，获戛纳电影节金棕榈提名。瓦依达在这个题材中所表现出的兴趣所在是十分明显的：他试图追索波兰民族意识的形成过程。此片引起了波兰知识界的热烈评论，许多人文科学界的权威和一些著名作家都发表了自己的看法，再此之前，几乎从来没有一部电影可使知识界产生如此广泛的反应。

94年柏林电影节最佳动画短片金熊奖，库科最著名的作品之一。

通过与朋友的交往与自我的想象，我试图在乔丹的旅程中探索孩子与失败的父母间难言又痛苦的关系。一个寻找自我和归属感的年轻人如何摆脱理想的父亲形象。 　　Through Jordan's journey, I seek to explore this unspeakable and painful bond a child can have with his failing parent, how a young person in search of himself and a sense of belonging will get rid of his father's ideal image. Through the interactions he has with his friends, but especially through imagination.

撞见出轨现场的交换生美丽，沉迷于药物的摄影师梦二，为获取签证而在工厂辛苦工作的实习生陆离，以及失去了母亲和工作的老人岩井，四个人度过了动荡的几天。