影片讲述西北农村，两个被各自家庭抛弃的孤独个体，在日复一日的耕耘中相濡以沫的故事，武仁林与海清展现了一对底层农民夫妇从陌生到熟悉，从相知到相守的心路历程。

七十年代初，一群屈居在鐵皮木板下的安置區居民，正苦候著政府徙置的安排。擠逼侷促的生活空間，基本設施的嚴重缺乏和惡劣嘈吵的居住環境引致居民間的爭拗埋怨，甚至抱著「各家自掃門前雪」的冷漠態度。直至一名老翁的猝死和一場大火，居民終於領悟到互助互愛的重要性，而他們最後亦得到徙置，離開這非人生活的地方。

Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor. ISBN: 9781449888848