爱丽丝(朱丽安·摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰)是一位事业有成的大学语言学教授,和丈夫约翰(亚历克·鲍德温 Alec Baldwin 饰)结婚多年,感情一直十分要好,两人生养了三个孩子莉迪亚(克里斯汀·斯图尔特 Kristen Stewart 饰)、斐格利亚(凯 特·波茨沃斯 Kate Bosworth 饰)和汤姆(亨特·帕瑞施 Hunter Parrish 饰),每一个孩子都健康长大。
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??