In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..

　　最近，瓦伦斯（比尔·默瑞 Bill Murray 饰）心情不错，因为他即将赶赴伦敦，与他的弟弟詹姆士（彼得·盖勒 Peter Gallagher 饰）共度生日。然而，对于詹姆士来说，这可不是一个好消息，身为一个成功的银行家，繁忙的工作让他再也分不出时间来应付这个成天傻呵呵的弟弟了。为了打发瓦伦斯，詹姆士送给了他一张舞台剧门票，没想到正是这张门票，将瓦伦斯卷入了一个阴谋之中。　　黑帮，杀手，这些平日里离瓦伦斯的生活无比遥远的角色开始接连出现在了他的身边，而单纯又善良的瓦伦斯将这惊心动魄的一切权当做是一部超真实的电影乐在其中。没想到，能够阻挡杀手强力攻势的竟然是瓦伦斯的单纯，正义和邪恶之间的争斗在笑料百出之中展开了。

　　幸存者们发现岛上存在神秘建筑入口，在杰克（马修·福克斯 Matthew Fox 饰）的带领下进行探索，强制进入舱门后，发现里面竟然有人，且是杰克曾经在现实中有过一面之缘的戴斯蒙德（亨利·伊恩·库斯科 Henry Ian Cusick 饰），如同看到救星一般，戴斯蒙德留下一串数字密码便跑掉了，而杰克一行则需要接替他的任务——每隔108分钟输入密码以关掉警报。在舱门中，幸存者们找到充足食物，也由一卷录影带了解到这座孤岛的背景，似乎和某个失败的实验有关。另一方面，扎起竹筏试图离开岛屿的迈克尔（哈罗·佩里纽 Harold Perrineau 饰）等人并没有成功驶向深海，而是被潮水带到岛的另一边，发现还有一群机尾的幸存者，他们挟持着迈克尔等人慢慢向营地靠近……

　　Robert Tucker, a sorrowful, solitary man, given to bouts of weeping, tries to balance his life caring for his aging mother, his Catholicism, his homosexuality, and his dull job. One night, after his mother has gone to bed, he dons leather and heads for a private club. He telephones a tattoo artist with a special request. He goes to confession, accusing himself of despairing. He cries out during a nightmare, waking his mother. "You're a good boy," she's told him. He prays the Stations of the Cross, and he lives out his own sorrowful mysteries.