In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..
过气的好莱坞名星乔伊·斯科特(丹尼尔·克雷格 Daniel Craig 饰)在位于马布里海滩的豪宅内独自生活,来这里的客人除了妓女就是毒贩。他的生活似乎陷入了万劫不复的泥潭,新欢留下了一只该死的狗害他心烦意乱,惟一还可以和他交流的女佣因无法忍受他糜烂的生活决定辞职,连他的经纪人也对他冷言冷语甚至直接炒他的鱿鱼。正当他的生活陷入前所未有的困顿之时却意外接到他母亲的电话,电话里告知他童年玩伴博茨的死讯。乔伊放下电话,内心难以平静,他的脑海里开始泛起关于自己少年时代的种种记忆。当他回到家乡以后,发现那里已是物是人非。
本片由新任007丹尼尔·克雷格主演并担当制片。