以《推拿》获得金马奖最佳改编剧本奖的编剧马英力，在纪录片《梦的背后》中执起导演筒，近身跟拍导演丈夫娄烨入围本届金马奖最佳导演的《风中有朵雨做的云》制作过程，从前期筹备、拍摄现场、后期制作。知名编剧张家鲁、摄影包轩鸣、演员秦昊、 井柏然、宋佳等主创人员也现身说法。除了见证一部电影的诞生，更侧面察看中国电影制作的现状，真实呈现摄影机外的疯狂世界。

我们是否知悉十来岁的年轻姑娘在想些什么，她们又如何走过从少女到女人这一历程？女孩是怎么开始进身这一变化历程的？有开始标记吗？有成人典礼吗？她们的梦想是什么？对于跨入成人期她们的期望是什么？对于变为成熟女子她们的期望是什么？至于变身成为母亲，她们的期望又是什么？当今社会对他们的期望是什么？这些年轻小女人是哪些，她们将要为下世纪在历史文化上带来什么？
夜女郎讲述的是一个17岁女孩韩琳（译名）的辛酸故事。早熟的她为了家庭重担，不得不加入了跳艳舞的行列。出生在大都会中，表面上她是一位传统中国家庭出来的普通女孩。实际上，韩琳的沧桑已超过其岁数，身上背负着太多在西方女子眼中难以理解的责任感。
徘徊在少女至成熟女子的分界线上曝露于各种诱惑当中，性行业可以使到她经济独立，但是她却失去与其他女子同样多选择工种的机会。一个当今中国的震撼写照。夜女郎呈现出当地的传统，当地的价值观以及男女角色在某些方面的冲突的综合，这个综合在一代代人身上又或者在文化现象上会不时出现。

Two very different young women attempt to cope with the cultural changes sweeping their hometown of Beijing, China in the late 1990s. Xiaoxia has just returned from prolonged study overseas. She is a musician, and is shocked to see how money-hungry everyone now seems to be. When she begins running her brother's nightclub, she almost starts having a good (and successful) time, until the still-puritanical authorities close it down after she permits an avant-garde group to give a nude performance. Linlin never left town, but her studies at art school were cut short by official disapproval of her affair with a non-Chinese foreigner. A rich German arranges for her photography to be exhibited in Munich, and she is eager to leave the country to see the show. The two women's lives briefly connect at the nightclub, but are otherwise separate.