"The Song of Cotton" based on the America's National Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award winner China-born author Ha Jin's novel "A Pension Plan". The young woman Mianhua ("Cotton") gets a job that she has no past experience of: a full-time caretaker. Her client is an old stubborn boxer who suffers from Alzheimer's disease with a son (with his later wife) living overseas taking no care of him, and a daughter with his ex-wife who hires Mianhua. Yet the daughter distrusts and despises all nannies for "knows only lying, abusing, and taking advantages"; so is her attitude towards Mianhua. Under the same roof, however, the old man and Mianhua start to develop a trusty and warm relationship over time where he even starts to mistake Mianhua as his ex-wife whom he owed a love debt to. All of a sudden, Mianhua finds out that she got pregnant... 一枝一叶总关情。实力大比拼。盛先生和棉花都是不幸，也都是幸运的。一张看不到终点的单程车票。电影想披露和表达的社会问题太多，看的有点累。拍得很不错，能让人看到导演的潜力。可能生活就是这样。《盛先生的花儿》骚年不改道。写实是柄双刃剑。两个实力派的竞技与相互辉映。 盛琴（艾丽娅 饰）的父亲盛先生（王德顺 饰）患上了老年痴呆症，每况愈下，最终生活无法自理。为了照顾父亲的饮食起居，盛琴雇佣了一位名叫棉花（颜丙燕 饰）的保姆。盛先生的记忆虽然每日都在消减，但唯独念念不忘的是已经过世多年的妻子，棉花刚刚上任没多久，便屡屡被盛先生误认为是妻子，惹出了不少的麻烦，棉花的为人品性亦遭到了盛琴的质疑。 随着时间的推移，棉花和盛先生之间建立起了一种特殊的信赖，可就在这个节骨眼上，棉花竟然怀孕了，崩溃的盛琴怀疑棉花腹中的孩子是自己的弟弟，于是在暗地里展开了调查，亦就此牵扯出了棉花隐藏多年的秘密。
