科学家汤姆·雅各布斯（萨沙·罗伊茨饰）发明了一种可以提取他人记忆的技术，并进入一名谋杀嫌疑犯安东尼（多米尼克·博加特饰）的记忆中确认是否他曾犯下罪案。在目睹了谋杀经过后，汤姆却无法顺利从记忆中回到现实世界。被困4 年后，汤姆偶然发现和安东尼交流的方法，并说服他帮助自己返回现实。坚信自己无罪的安东尼在最后关头执意汤姆再次搜寻谋杀经过，而事件的真实一面也逐渐揭晓……

艾文（韦斯·本特利 Wes Bentley 饰）总是和自己的亲朋好友们说自己是一名作家，而他也的的确确从事着文字工作，可是艾文没有说实话，他的真正工作，其实是专门帮别人撰写遗书。一次偶然中，艾文结识了一名客户的妹妹夏洛蒂（薇诺娜·瑞德 Winona Ryder 饰）。夏洛蒂也以为艾文只是单纯的作家，并且被他的才华所吸引，可是碍于身份，艾文对夏洛蒂的示好屡屡回避。　　音乐家艾博是艾文的好友，两人之间拥有非常多的共同话题，常常在一起探讨人生的意义，然而，这个深陷窘境的艾博也有想不开的一天，竟然也想要找艾文给自己写遗书。面对去意已决的好友，艾文会怎样力挽狂澜呢？

"Pawparazzi Snap!", a gossip show hosted by Sydney Flow and his dog sidekick Nancy O'Dogg, is the hottest celebrity gossip show on television. So what better place for London Bridges, a fast rising Hollywood starlet, to announce her next project "There Will Be Oil", an independent art film by acclaimed director Hugh Franklin and co-starring Dame Ruby Bench. With her pampered pomeranian Latte in tow, London arrives on location to see that she won't be receiving the star treatment she is used to. Not only will the film be shot on a farm in a secluded rural area, but London's acmodations will be on location as well. But when two thieves posing as Paparazzi show up to steal the prized "Academy Necklace" , a prized piece of Hollywood memorabilia that is bestowed about whomever is the current "it girl", London learns that her knight in shining armor is Tom, the simple farmer who is hosting her stay on the farm.