影片讲述了美国南北内战时期，一个名叫英曼的南部士兵身受重伤生命所剩无多，他逃离部队，历尽千辛万苦返回故乡冷山，只为了见上心爱的意中恋人艾达一面。而艾达则在山影交错的乡间度过了独立的蜕变期，学会如何与粗粝尖锐的生活对抗挣扎，并与山区女孩露比在战乱期间的冷山相互取暖，艰难而快乐的生活着。

      艾莉森·克劳斯(Alison Krauss，1971年7月23日- )生于伊利诺伊州迪凯特，美国蓝草乡村歌手与民谣小提琴家。是当今美国蓝草音乐的领军者，“蓝草音乐”(Blue Grass)是美国民间音乐的一种，从上世纪二十年代出现并开始发展，在新世纪里未显丝毫颓败之势，因Alison 这样优秀蓝草歌手的不断革新，使蓝草音乐焕发出更为迷人的气质，作品逐渐挤占主流唱片市场份额，且在全球都拥有越来越多的歌迷。

When I recall his parting words

于是，离别的话语在心间回荡

Must I accept his fate

接受命运里永恒的伤

Or take myself far from this place

不如浪迹远方

I thought I heard a black bell toll

黑钟鸣响

A little bird did sing

小鸟浅唱

Man has no choice

人心无从抵抗

When he wants every thing

荣耀与梦想

We'll rise above the scarlet tide

伫立在血腥红潮上

That trickles down through the mountain

巍峨山岭苦育滋养

And separates the widow from the bride

禁不住素颜代了容妆

Man goes beyond his own decision

一时狂热铸成诀别的苦酿

Gets caught in a mechanism

终日在心的囚牢里彷徨

And swindlers who works like kings

窃者称王

And brokers those who break everything

掮客为妄

The dark of night was swiftly fading

夜色转瞬不再苍凉

Close to the dawn of day

因为黎明的光亮

Why would I want him just to lose him again

而他依然在梦的那一方

We'll rise above the scarlet tide

伫立在血腥红潮上

That trickles down through the mountain

巍峨山岭苦育滋养

And separates the widow from the bride

禁不住素颜代了容妆