一位声名显赫的高等法院法官Fiona Maye，她和教授丈夫的婚姻来到破碎的临界点，而一项棘手的案件又摆在她面前：是否应该强迫一位未满18岁、拒绝接受输血治疗的白血病患者活下去？Maye前去医院探望患病男孩Adam，这起谈话带给了两人深远的影响，不仅让Adam产生全新的强烈感受，也将Maye内心深藏的情感激发出来。
本片根据社会活动家约翰·戴维森的人生经历改编。他年少时被诊断出患有妥瑞氏综合征，会不受控制地抽动身体或口吐恶言。妥瑞氏综合征迫使约翰与同龄人疏远，而他则不懈与这种鲜为人知的症状作斗争，积极为妥瑞氏人群发声。
Brief Meetings is about a love triangle between three very different people. Nadia, a country girl, falls in love with Maskim, a roaming guitar playing geologist, and in her search for him she ends up working for Valentina, his long-distance, bureaucrat wife. Nadia begins to work as a maid for Valentina, but as they spend time together they have flashbacks to their brief meetin...
