After believing she spotted her son in a traveling caravan, a distraught mother returns to the island of El Hierro, where son disappeared three years previously.。Leonel grows up in the United States, believing that Roberto is his biological father, and although he is unsure of his origins, and doesn't speak Spanish, he constantly has nightmares involving the border with Mexico, and a woman he cannot remember. But he continues on and doesn't ask himself many questions. His life is good, he has an excellent relationship with his parents, ...。艾米莉有着别人看来不幸的童年——父亲给她做健康检查时,发现她心跳过快,便断定她患上心脏病,从此艾米莉与学校绝缘。随后因为一桩意外,母亲在她眼前突然死去。这一切都毫不影响艾米莉对生活的豁达乐观。
1997年,戴安娜王妃的去世让她倍感人生的孤独脆弱,艾米莉从此开始了一系列助人计划,包括自闭忧郁的邻居老人,被老板刻薄的菜摊伙计、遗失了童年器物的旧房东、爱情失意的咖啡店同事。但她万万想不到,成人录象带商店店员尼诺,竟成为她的棘手对象,艾米莉开始了令人哭笑不得的另类计划……。