As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he
故事发生在风景宜人的橘子郡，朋友的意外身亡让原本热爱冲浪的肖恩（科林·汉克斯 Colin Hanks 饰）大为震惊，因为在此之前，他的世界中从来不曾出现过这样真实而又痛苦的事情。一次偶然中，肖恩在沙地里挖出了作家马库斯（凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰）的小说《整齐的夹克》，这本小说彻底改变了肖恩，他决定放弃冲浪转而成为一名作家。
在完成了自己的第一本小说的同时，肖恩凭借着智慧和努力获得了极好的考试成绩，他将小说寄给了马库斯，将申请材料寄往了马库斯所在的斯坦福大学。没想到，一切的努力换来的却是拒绝
A dentist in mid-life-crisis who hates his job, finally decides to break away from his kiasu environment and pursue his long repressed childhood dream...
