When a single father to a teenage daughter learns that he has a fatal brain tumor, he takes her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might need over the rest of her life.
这是斯塔顿总统(丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰)这几年来头一遭翻开报纸,没想到,关于自己的负面新闻以排山倒海之势扑面而来,大受打击的斯塔顿顿时陷入了郁郁寡欢之中,行为举止也日渐怪异。作为斯塔顿的得力助手,萨特(威廉·达福 Willem Dafoe 饰)感到十分焦急。竞选在即,不断下跌的支持率让他所支持的这位竞选人离连任的目标越来越远。