故事发生在1910年的上海,美国富家子弟高道生(亚德里安·帕斯达 Adrian Pasdar 饰)结识了名为方林(尊龙 饰)的流浪儿,两人之间建立起了非常坚实的友谊。一次偶然中,两人在误打误撞之下发现了大毒枭藏匿毒品的地窖,因而引来了杀身之祸,在枪战中,道生的父亲不幸遇难,而方林则因为给高道生报仇打死了毒枭而遭到了警方的逮捕。
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??