在这部罂粟花剧情/短片片中,命运的机缘巧合下，查尔斯，一位年轻又十分卖力工作的律师在飞机上发现坐在他旁边的中国女人有一段十分神秘的过去。在看到查尔斯买的一束罂粟花时，女人开始回忆起她早年动荡的经历其中包括她第一段与鸦片交易商的婚姻~ 罂粟花象征着悲伤与快乐和美丽外表下复杂的人生。
Fate intervenes, when Charles, a young and over-worked American corporate lawyer, finds himself seated beside an elderly Chinese woman with a mysterious past, Auntie Ling on a contemporary flight from Shanghai to New York. After noticing the beautiful bouquet of Poppies that Charles has brought on-board the flight, Auntie Ling reminisces about the early years of her marriage to Shu Zhen, an opium trader in 1940s Shanghai, and tries to coax Charles out of his solitude. Slowly lured into her stories, Charles begins to see the layers beneath Auntie Ling's polished facade. Poppies brought Charles and Auntie Ling together, underscoring the fine line between joy and sorrow...life and death. Influenced by real events, Poppies explores the cross-cultural and cross-generational relationships that develop between strangers in mid-air.
