布兰克（约翰·库萨克 John Cusack 饰）是一名经验丰富的职业杀手，效忠于组织，深得上司的信赖与重用。然而，成日里躲躲藏藏打打杀杀的生活令布兰克感到十分疲惫，产生了金盆洗手的念头，可是，他所签署的合同却并不允许他有此想法。

　　这一次，布兰克的目标人物竟然生活在他的老家底特律，在那里，布兰克和曾经的女友德比（明妮·德里弗 Minnie Driver 饰）重逢了，这场意外的重逢让两人之间再度擦出了火花。之后，布兰克意外遭到袭击，凶徒是他的同行格罗希尔（丹·艾克罗伊德 Dan Aykroyd 饰），更让布兰克感到吃惊的是，他和格罗希尔所要刺杀的人，正是德比的父亲。

　　本片根据布雷克·莫里森同名小说改编，由曾拍摄《她比烟花寂寞》和《导购女郎》的著名导演安南德·图克尔执导。 　　四十岁的专栏作家布雷克·莫里森（柯林·费斯 饰）刚辞了工作，准备创作一部小说。父亲阿瑟（吉姆·布劳特本 饰）身患绝症的消息，让他一些字陷入了对过去的回忆：父亲专制的爱不仅带走了童年短暂的快乐，还使父子二人的感情渐渐疏远。当成年的布雷克不断和父亲对抗时，父亲也在不断与病魔斗争。可是，即便到了此刻，对于记忆中女人贝蒂（萨拉·兰凯萨 饰）和父亲的关系，布雷克始终无法释怀，面对即将离世的父亲，已为人父的布雷克终于明白，缠绕心中多年的疑问，是时候找到答案了。

Lawyer Savvas Tsiviklis receives a gift from an old girlfriend, Kiki Petachtidou, who has just returned from the Congo. The gift is two small wooden lions which, in order not to find his wife Koula and mad in the bedroom, gives them to a well-known young man. In a while, however, his wife comes and gives him the lions he had previously given to the young man. Savvas goes crazy and begins the quarrels and jealousy that bachelor Menios supposes by constantly exclaiming "What good do I do and not get married!" Of course, in the end, they clear everything, since Koula from the beginning She had said the lions were a gift from an old classmate, Ms. Contoyorgus, and those that Savvas gave to the young, though quite the same, were different.