老头子Woody(布鲁斯·邓恩 Bruce Dern 饰)收到一份广告,上面说他中了一百万大奖,对此他深信不疑,更决定从蒙大拿的比灵斯市步行到内布拉斯加的林肯市去领奖。他的妻子和两个儿子多次劝阻未果,最终小儿子David(威尔·福特 Will Forte 饰)决定开车载着他到林肯去领奖。去林肯的路上他们经过了Woody的老家,便决定去拜访那些久未谋面的亲戚们。Woody一家在那里短暂停留的几天里,整个小镇的人都知道Woody中了大奖,Woody顿时成了镇上的红人,接踵而来的是他的那些老债主们。David也渐渐了解了Woody那些不为人知的过去,对自己的父亲有了新的了解......
In a dystopian future where the parole system has been replaced with R.A.P.P. - the Recidivism Accountability Partnership Program - a white collar ex-con must take drastic measures to ensure his survival when he's paired with a sociopathic gangster with terminal cancer. One wrong move by either of them could mean the summary execution of them both, via the explosive charges sur...