卡洛琳(艾伦·巴金 Ellen Barkin 饰)是一位不幸的单身母亲,她带着儿子托比(莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥 Leonardo DiCaprio 饰)离开了有暴力倾向的男友,辗转于不同的城市,只为能够赚钱养家糊口。在西雅图,卡洛琳认识了卡车司机德怀特(罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰),在德怀特的身上,她找到了久违的爱情的感觉。
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??