Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.

艾尔莎（雪莉·麦克雷恩 Shirley MacLaine 饰）年岁已高，独自一人过着形单影只的生活。某日，一位名叫弗雷德（克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰）的老人搬到了她的隔壁，这位老人刚刚失去了他的妻子，正生活在阴云的笼罩之下。
尽管艾尔莎和弗雷德完全是两种截然不同的人，但随着时间的推移，两颗衰老疲惫的心渐渐靠近，弗雷德在艾尔莎的陪伴下渐渐走出了悲痛，而艾尔莎亦因为弗雷德的存在而找到了生活的希望和意义。然而，一直以来，艾尔莎都隐瞒了一个秘密，她患有重病，时日无多，不仅如此，艾尔莎告诉弗雷德的那些过去，也大都是她编造而来。当弗雷德得知这一切的真相，他会做出怎样的选择呢？