特立独行、技术高超的杀手杰克(乔治·克鲁尼 George Clooney饰)来到意大利乡下的一座田园小镇,打算执行完这次任务后金盆洗手——为女杀手组装一支专用步枪。在这相对简单平静的环境里,原本低调谨慎的杰克出乎意料的与当地居民建立了深厚的友谊。不仅如此,他还邂逅了美丽的妓女克莱拉(薇奥兰特·普拉西多 Violante Placido饰),一段浪漫的爱情由此展开。然而,这杀手生涯中的最后一次任务,却远没有想象中的简单。
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??