故事发生在1845年的英国,安妮(查利·墨菲 Charlie Murphy 饰)、夏洛特(菲恩·阿特金斯 Finn Atkins 饰)和艾米丽(克洛伊·皮里 Chloe Pirrie 饰)三姐妹和他们年迈的老父亲一起过着相依为命的生活。弟弟布兰威尔(亚当·纳盖提斯 Adam Nagaitis 饰)的屡屡骚扰让这家人本就贫困的生活雪上加霜。
Juan Debré has spent a lifetime playing a hero in a popular TV series. When he is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he withdraws from his everyday life. Aware of having wasted his life, he escapes from a film shoot to travel to Brussels. In the land of his childhood hero, Tintin, he seeks to answer a question that has haunted him all his life: ?Could I be a real-life hero??