When a plane crashes, Newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder discovers a Note that was meant for the child of one of the passengers."The Note" shows how dramatically life can change in a spilt second...the need to make a connection and reach out to someone you care about. If only we had a chance for those final goodbyes, to offer words of reconciliation, to say I love you or share regret. Who would you write to if you had only a few moments? What would you say?
米爾德里德（瓊·勞馥 Joan Crawford 飾）的丈夫蒙特（扎瑞·斯考特 Zachary Scott 飾）拋棄了妻子，也拋棄了他們的個女兒。米爾德里對大女兒維達（?布萊思 Ann Blyth 飾）尤為溺愛，心中充滿了疚，寧愿去做卑微餐廳服務(wù)員也要讓兒吃好的穿好的過等人的生活。在母的縱容之下，維達漸變成了一個眼中有榮華富貴的女人在威利（杰克·卡 Jack Carson 飾）和艾伯特（布魯斯·本內(nèi) Bruce Bennett 飾）的幫助下，米爾德里終于擁有了屬于自的餐廳，一家人終脫離了苦海，而米德里德在艾伯特的上亦再度找到了愛感覺。然而，隨著間的推移，米爾德德發(fā)現(xiàn)維達似乎亦有意無意的勾引著伯特，母女之間的情出現(xiàn)了裂痕。??
