少年时代的一场意外让男孩小马（黄轩 饰）的双眼失去了光明，心碎自杀未遂后，心碎阴沉的小马辗转来到了由沙复明（秦昊 饰）所经营的盲人按摩中心就职。在这里，聚集了许多和小马一样的盲人，无论是先天还是后天，生活在共同的黑暗里让这群盲人之间产生了深厚而坚实的友谊。王大夫（郭晓冬 饰） 和女友小孔（张磊 饰）远道而来投奔沙复明，小孔充满了女人味的声音和气息令小马的内心产生了涟漪，执着而决绝的小马追寻着内心的声音，不断的向小孔靠近着。之后，一个名叫小蛮（黄璐 饰）的发廊小姐出现在了小马的生命里，随着时间的推移，小马竟然开始对小蛮产生了感情。
回复 :影片男主角的原型是一位伊朗裔，加拿大籍的记者巴哈里（Maziar Bahari）。2009年，巴哈里作为美国《新闻周刊》（Newsweek）驻伊朗记者，报道当年的伊朗总统大选。6月13日，选举委员会宣布艾哈迈迪-内贾德（Mahmoud Ahmadinejad）获胜后，其竞争对手的支持者上街游行，巴哈里拍下了这场被称为“伊朗绿色革命”的抗议活动。6月21日，他从德黑兰的家中被带走，经历118天的监禁后获释。其后巴哈里将自己的这段经历写成回忆录《Then They Came for Me》，于2011年出版。在书中，他描述自己遭到折磨和审讯，对方视他为潜入伊朗的间谍。由于双眼被蒙住，看不清提审人的面容，只闻到他身上的玫瑰香水味，巴哈里在书中就以“玫瑰香水”（Rosewater）称呼对方，影片的片名也是由此而来。
回复 :苏利曼和“苏丹电影俱乐部”的另外三名成员决定重振一家旧电影院。他们不仅因为对电影的热爱和对恢复旧电影存量、再次关注苏丹电影历史的强烈渴望而团结在一起，而且因为他们都曾在流放中接受过电影教育。不知疲倦地，他们试图让影院老板站在他们一边，让这个地方重新运作起来，但他们一再发现自己遭到了相当大的阻力。同时，他们坐在一起谈论过去——包括他们作为对立艺术家遭受迫害甚至折磨的经历。他们还朗读流亡和梦想苏丹时写的旧信，在那里艺术和智力思想可以自由。“我们比他们聪明，但不如他们强大，”他们一致总结了他们的处境。正是在这些简洁的时刻，观众才能够感知到友谊，以及在为共同理想而斗争中存在的纽带和意识形态的团结。苏哈伊布·加斯梅尔巴里把苏丹电影的历史放在影片的中心，同时也揭示了一个受到持续危机影响的国家的现状Suliman and three further members of the ‘Sudanese Film Club’ have decided to revive an old cinema. They are united not only by their love of cinema and their passionate desire to restore old film stock and draw attention to Sudanese film history once more, but also by the fact that they have all enjoyed a film education in exile. Tirelessly, they try to get the cinema’s owners on their side and make the place operational again, but repeatedly find themselves up against considerable resistance. In the meantime, they sit together and talk about the past – including their experiences of persecution and even torture as oppositional artists. They also read out old letters written while in exile and dream of a Sudan in which art and intellectual thought can be free. ‘We are smarter than them, but not as strong,’ is how they unanimously summarise their situation. It is in laconic moments such as these that the viewer is able to perceive the friendship, as well as the bond and ideological solidarity that exists in the struggle for common ideals.Suhaib Gasmelbari puts the history of Sudanese cinema at the centre of his film and at the same time sheds light on the current situation in a country shaken by ongoing crises.
回复 :《红衣女郎(The Woman in Red)》的法国原版。
