基于Bob Zellner的自传《The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement》,Zellner出生于阿拉巴马州,是某个三K党成员的孙子,1961年,他被卷入民权运动的中心。
提尔饰演Zellner,海尔饰演Zellner的大学女友Carol Ann,丹内利饰演Zellner的爷爷,福曼饰演Zellner的爸爸。
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??