年过半百的唐·琼斯顿（比尔·默瑞 Bill Murray 饰）一生拥有数不尽的浪漫恋情和风流韵事，但他从来无意组建家庭，只愿享受热恋的激情，任凭一个个出色的女性从身边流走，展开别样的人生。这一天，唐收到一封某前女友的来信，信中称继承了他血脉的儿子离家出走，正踏上一段寻父旅程。万千情愫，难以言喻，唐也展开一段倒溯之旅。他先后拜访了劳拉（莎朗·斯通 Sharon Stone 饰）、朵拉（弗兰西丝·康罗伊 Frances Conroy 饰）、卡门（杰西卡·兰格 Jessica Lange 饰）和派妮（蒂尔达·斯文顿 Tilda Swinton 饰）。人有百种，花有千姿，曾经的孟浪，蓦然回首，凋零的岂是那逝去的青春。这究竟是一段追索真相的旅程，还是关于情感与记忆的祭奠……
Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.
