故事发生在湖南某临江小城。生性倔犟的小静（尹雅宁 饰）自幼聋哑，早年父母离异，如今的她跟着外公和舅舅（余宣 饰）一起生活。常年的不能与他人正常沟通异化了她的性格，小静逐渐变得令人难以琢磨，使她滑向了伦理道德的边界。酒吧歌手小梅（吴冰滨 饰）狂放不羁，在与母亲大吵一架后流落街头不再回家，但残酷的现实令这个涉世未深的女孩深感迷茫，她不知如何走下去，只靠貌似坚强实则脆弱的内心支撑苦苦挣扎，她不知道哪里才是温暖的归巢。警官张昊阳（李强 饰）自觉生不逢时，他已鰥居多年，与前妻离婚后一心再想找个女人，却总碰不上合适的，他想再要个儿子，尽管他曾有过一个聋哑的女儿......

Jing lives with her mother and grandparents in a small fishing village in a southern Chinese province. Instead of going to school, the deaf-mute teenager spends her time on a fishing boat with her mentally handicapped uncle – until one day she gets (too) close to him. Mei, a city kid rock musician of the same age, travels from club to club with her guitar, dreaming of an independent life. When Jing goes to live in the city with her hardboiled police officer father Zhang, the two girls come together. Mei is Zhang’s lover. Despite an initial standoff, the three manage to open up and create an emotional tie that gives their lives new perspective. SONGS OF SILENCE tells in elegantly convoluted sequences of the meeting and separating of the three protagonists, each of which is isolated in their own way.