百万富翁让-马克-克莱蒙特得知在外百老汇将上演一场可能关连自己“时俗讽刺剧”，他来到了剧院，在那里遇见了正在排练的阿曼达。导演认为克莱蒙特是最适合在剧中出演“自己”的人选，克莱蒙特答应参加这次演出，只为能再次见到阿曼达……

　　故事发生在1972年的德国，汉斯（尤利乌斯·维克考夫 Julius Weckauf 饰）是一个胖嘟嘟的九岁小男孩，生活在祖母经营的小铺子中。汉斯的性格并不是那么的讨喜，但是他有一项过人之处，那就是他拥有能够逗人发笑的特殊能力，无论心情再低落的人，只要和汉斯讲两句话，就会重新获得笑容。　　汉斯的母亲玛格丽特（路易斯·海耶尔 Luise Heyer 饰）病重，全家的重担都堆到了父亲的身上，为了养家糊口支付医疗费，整日埋头工作的父亲也渐渐失去了笑容。好在汉斯家族中的女性都十分的豁达而坚韧，她们的存在在潜移默化之中影响了汉斯，让他的心灵免受残酷现实的伤害。

　　Young university student Hugo (Gustav Lindh) falls in love with promising violinist Agnes (Evin Ahmad), but something happens that changes his life completely. Moving on, the story turns into a romantic drama-comedy with great portions of humour and warmth, as Hugo ends up at Circus Marg?t and is drawn into that absorbing existence.

兰德尔（凯文?科斯特纳 Kevin Costner ?饰）本事美国海岸警卫队的一名出色队员，然而，老猫烧须，一次他执行拯救任务时不仅任务完全失败，还搭进去了五名队友的性命。兰德尔从此一蹶不振。　　上司为了帮兰德尔重拾信心，将他派到了培训基地当任教官。在那里，兰德尔遇到了自信狂妄的学员游泳冠军费殊（艾什顿?库彻 Ashton Kutcher 饰）。费殊的自信活力给了兰德尔重新投入工作的信心。　　一次，费殊问兰德尔一共救过多少人，兰德尔告诉他22人；费殊一阵失落，随后问，“不是200个吗？”兰德尔斩钉截铁地回答，“我只记得我失去多人！”费殊彻底被兰德尔的勇气与坚毅所折服。两师徒惺惺相惜。　　之后，两人一起投入到了一次生死攸关的抢险中……

　　Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel. A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills' body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength. The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first.