一名在澳洲以农为业的的占水师康纳(罗素·克劳 Russell Crowe 饰)在第一次世界大战加里波利战役后前往土耳其伊斯坦堡,试图寻找他三个参战阵亡儿子的遗骸。即使一开始遭到军方的百般阻挠,他也不屈不挠,更遇到于伊斯坦堡入住旅馆女主人爱莎(欧嘉·柯瑞兰寇 Olga Kurylenko 饰)及一名曾与他儿子对战的土耳其军官出手协助。康纳抓住一丝希望,为查出真相,穿越饱受战火蹂躏的土地,九死一生,只为寻回儿子阵亡的真相,了结自己及妻子的心愿……
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??