清洁

艾米利（张曼玉 饰）曾经是一个音乐节目主持人，她的丈夫行为先锋不羁，是一个过气的摇滚歌星。他们都嗜毒，丈夫还因为吸毒过量而死。而艾米利则被搜出毒品而被判6个月监禁。因为夫妻一直过着不正常的生活，所以儿子被爷爷奶奶领走抚养，想给他一个清洁的成长环境。 　　艾米利出狱后，她强烈的想要回儿子的抚养权，然而长辈却没有办法相信艾米利能尽好母亲的责任。为了能和儿子重聚，艾米利找了一份餐馆的工作，努力戒掉毒瘾，让自己成为一个清洁的母亲。正巧此时奶奶患病，爷爷分身乏术，无法照料孙子，这样一来，事情真的可以遂愿么？London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. She is now more renowned for being the longtime girlfriend and pseudo manager of rock musician Lee Hauser, who seems to be on the brink of stardom. Those that know the couple believe she is a bad influence on him, and is the reason why he is a junkie. After Lee dies from an accidental heroin overdose and Emily is imprisoned for six months on possession charges, she learns that the courts have awarded custody of their young adolescent son, Jay, to Lee's aging parents, Albrecht and Rosemary Hauser, who live in Vancouver. A concerned Albrecht asks that she not attempt to see Jay for at least two years while she cleans up her act so as to give Jay a fighting chance at a decent life. Emily initially agrees, knowing that she is in no position to look after Jay. To regain her life, she decides to move back to her old stomping grounds of Paris. As Emily tries mostly unsuccessfully to become clean while eking out a living doing what she wants to earn money, which is primarily still in the realm of rock music, Rosemary poisons Jay's mind about his mother. Caught in the middle is Albrecht, who, out of personal circumstance, wants Jay to eventually have a relationship with his mother if only because he knows that he and Rosemary will not be able to look after Jay until adulthood and that Emily is the only other family he has.