故事发生在二十世纪初的北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特,刚刚出狱没多久的约翰尼(詹姆斯·梅森 James Mason 饰)参与了一次抢劫行动,并且为了掩护队友而遭到了警察的枪击,约翰尼失手打死了警察,惹上了重罪,成为了全城通缉的对象,身负重伤的约翰尼体力不支,昏了过去。 穷的叮当响的无赖汉谢尔(F.J.麦考密 F.J. McCormick 饰)发现了约翰尼的踪迹,在他的身上看到了发财的法子,他将情报通告给神父汤姆(W.G. Fay 饰),却被凯瑟琳(凯思琳·赖安 Kathleen Ryan 饰)发现。凯瑟琳赶在谢尔之前找到了躲在疯画家鲁奇(罗伯特·牛顿 Robert Newton 饰)家中的约翰尼,就这样,两个人踏上了逃亡的旅途。
For 27-year-old Ben (Josh Lawson), life couldn’t be better. A well paid job, friends, parties, girls and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school to join several other ex-students including Alex (Rachael Taylor) and Jim (Ed Kavalee) in talking about their personal achievements, something goes wrong. Ben is the only speaker not to be asked a question by the school kids. This triggers a year of soulsearching and looking for answers in all the wrong places. From his best friend Andy (Christian Clark) whose solution is that they both take another holiday, to his mentor Sam (Lachy Hulme) who loans him a sports car in the belief that there’s nothing like excessive speed to resolve emotional turmoil. Not even Ben’s father (Rob Carlton) or friends Nick (Daniel Henshall) and Em (Felicity Ward) can offer much in the way of meaningful guidance. Of course, it’s not easy seeking enlightenment in nightclubs, or on the ski fields of New Zealand, and when you start dating a Russian tennis star things can get really complicated. As the poster boy for a generation desperate to tick every box, Ben begins to suspect that the meaning of life may well reside in the things he's already doing - and a girl he used to know.