西摩·帕里什（罗宾·威廉姆斯 Robin Williams 饰）是一家大型冲印店的普通职员，四十多岁了，一直过着孤独的单身生活，但是在他心中，一直对幸福美满的家庭有着梦想，不知从什么时候起，这份梦想被投射到熟客尤金一家身上。尤金太太妮娜（康妮·尼尔森 Connie Ni elsen 饰）美丽优雅，男主人威尔（迈克尔·瓦尔坦 Michael Vartan 饰）事业有成，他们还有个可爱的孩子——全是西蒙想得而不得的。西摩开始幻想自己是这家的一员，是可亲的“西蒙叔叔”，他还把这家人送来洗印的照片都偷偷拷贝一份私藏，事情败露后遭到解雇，但只是刺激他更加过分地接近和偷窥这一家人，在发现男主人竟然有外遇时，西蒙愤怒了，他开始着手进行惩罚，只因他梦想中的完美不容任何人破坏……

　　Raj总有个童年时期的朋友Tina不如他，但Tina的最好的朋友Pooja总比他强。当Raj的全家移民到英国后开始到互联网生意, Raj许诺Tina他与她将保持联系，他们的友谊地久天长。然而Tina忽视他，不回他的电子邮件,但是Pooja却回了他的信并以Tina的名义和他保持联系。十五年后,他们的友谊通过电子邮件开花结果了, Raj相信他认识的Tina，其实是Pooja。他全家决定回到印度带两周度假，当Tina发现了真相，他们决定一起扮演。当Raj到了印度,他被Tina的美丽深深的迷住了，但是却十分欣赏Pooja的个性。他将选择谁呢？
　　Raj, Pooja and Tina are childhood friends. While Raj has always been attracted to the vivacious Tina, he is completely unaware of the quiet Pooja's feelings for him. When Raj's family move to England to get involved in an internet business, Raj promises Tina that he will keep in touch with her and that their friendship will always be forever. However Tina disregards him and chooses not to respond to his first e-mail, in turn Pooja decides to keep in touch with him but signs under Tina's name. Fifteen years later, and their friendship has blossomed via e-mail, Raj believing that he's getting to know Tina when it's really Pooja. His family decides to go back on a holiday to India for 2 weeks, when Tina discovers the truth about Pooja's e-mails, they decide together that Tina will play along with the charade. When Raj arrives in India, he is struck by Tina's beauty but equally as struck to Pooja's personality. On a coincidence Raj eventually realizes that he had been corresponding with Pooja, and he realizes that Pooja is his true love which forces Tina and her family to accept the fact that Raj and Pooja are suitable for each other and that the two should get marry under any circumstances.

　　希特勒（Noah Taylor）从小立志要当杰出画家，一名犹太美术老师（John Cusack）未能成功开启他的艺术天份，才促使了希特勒日后投效政坛呼风唤雨，电影主要着墨在两人亦师亦友的关系上。

　　20世纪60年代，在自由开放的大环境下，古老的爱尔兰仍保持着古板和保守的风气。在这里，所有被认为堕落的女孩都要被送入玛德莲女子学院接受感化，而等待他们的不是和风细雨，而是无尽的黑暗与绝望。
　　玛格丽特（Anne-Marie Duff 饰）在家族婚礼上被堂兄奸污，这件事在婚礼现场口耳相传，她的委屈并未得到伸张，反而被作为“不洁的女孩”送走；活泼漂亮的伯纳黛特（Nora-Jane Noone 饰）是男孩们追逐的对象，她为了自己的“轻佻”付出了代价；罗丝（Dorothy Duffy 饰）未婚先孕，为了所谓的前途被迫放弃了自己的孩子。
　　三个女孩来到了玛德莲女子学院，她们还不知道，这是一个有来无回的绝望之地……