从小热爱音乐，并最终成为一名职业巡演音乐人的吉米-泰斯塔格罗斯（朗-埃达德饰），历经长达25年的时间，足迹遍布6大洲，带领自己的音乐团队巡演几乎整个地球，他的粉丝、歌迷已然有数百万之多。如今，已然是中年男人的吉米，终于在45岁这年决定回家，看望自己自20岁父亲去世那年便从未见过面的老母亲（罗伊丝-史密斯饰），以及他离别多年的小镇和少时的朋友们。 然而，经过多年的岁月洗礼，两鬓斑白的老母亲虽亲情依旧，但往日记忆里的浓情小镇早已翻天覆地，尤其是多年未谋面的发小、旧友甚至青梅竹马却早已是为人夫妇、情随世迁。在历经一番怀旧、追忆、欢笑、误解甚至打骂之后，无情的岁月与世道之变迁，带给这位明星显赫的老摇滚巨星的不仅仅是温馨满溢，更多的则是岁月无情和旧爱的逝去。但年迈的老母亲多年不变的母子亲情却依旧温暖如初，她收藏的爱子年少时便尽显音乐才华时的旧照片和简报，再次成为了中年吉米感恩亲情、相信生活的动力所在…… For over 20 years, Jimmy Testagross has lived his childhood dream: being a roadie for his childhood heroes, Blue Oyster Cult. But the band's Arena-Rock glory days are a distant memory. County fairs and club gigs pay the bills. And Jimmy has become a casualty of these leaner times. With no place to go, no job prospects, and no real skills outside of being a roadie, Jimmy needs to regroup. So he returns to his childhood home in Queens, Ny. There, he revisits old relationships: his ailing, widower mom, a high school crush, a former nemesis and, most importantly, his relationship with himself. Jimmy, the middle-aged man-child, has never grown up. He still carries the resentments and frustrations of his youth, and has allowed them to fester and define who and what he is. Confronted with his mother's illness, Jimmy has a choice: let go of the past and take responsibility for both himself and the woman who raised and now needs him. Or continue to live a life of lies and frustration.
八公（Forest 饰）是一条谜一样的犬，因为没有人知道它从哪里来。教授帕克（理查·基尔 Richard Gere 饰）在小镇的火车站拣到一只走失的小狗，冥冥中似乎注定小狗和帕克教授有着某种缘分，帕克一抱起这只小狗就再也放不下来，最终，帕克对小狗八公的疼爱感化了起初极力反对养狗的妻子卡特（琼·艾伦 Joan Allen 饰）。八公在帕克的呵护下慢慢长大，帕克上班时八公会一直把他送到车站，下班时八公也会早早便爬在车站等候，八公的忠诚让小镇的人家对它更加疼爱。有一天，八公在帕克要上班时表现异常，居然玩起了以往
