影片被描述为“对生命意义的诗意沉思”。故事发生在1955年一座虚构的美国沙漠小镇,镇上正在举办一场天文学大会,原本的计划是让来自全国各地的学生和家长聚集在一起进行学术竞赛并且争取奖学金,但是却意外被一件即将改变世界的大事件打乱了原来的行程。。Joseph and Brenda have done what many only dream of and retired to the South of France to live out the rest of their days as if they were permanently on holiday. But retirement is not what Joseph imagined, and when he meets a young, attractive woman, Suzanne, everything he thought he knew about himself and his world is turned upside down.。