2019年5月，几十位作家来到山西汾阳的一个小村庄，他们在这里谈论乡村与城市，文学与现实。影片以此为序曲，交响乐般地以18个章节讲述出1949年以来的中国往事。出生于上世纪50年代、60年代和70年代的三位作家贾平凹、余华和梁鸿成为影片最重要的叙述者，他们与已故作家马烽的女儿一起，重新注视了社会变迁中的个人与家庭，让影片成为一部跨度长达70年的中国心灵史。
Lori Vallow was known to friends and family as a devoted mother of three, a loving wife, and a woman of God. But over the past three years, something went very wrong: Now Lori is in jail, waiting to stand trial for conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her fourth husband, her fifth husband’s wife, and her two youngest children. For the first time, Lori’s surviving son Colby steps forward to provide exclusive insight into his family’s backstory as well as their present-tense narrative as Lori faces justice. At the heart of this three-part series is a single burning question: how did a seemingly normal woman become the most notorious mother in America?
