A retired couple deeply in debt try to win a rock dance competition.A minister is suspected of tax fraud. A teenager makes the acquaintance of a pervert.

After he graduated from high school, Julien left Normandy - where he was born and bred - to build a bigger life for himself in Paris, leaving his memories behind. But one day, it is time for him to go back, and all these memories violently come back to the surface.

艾米莉（奥黛丽·塔图 Audrey Tautou 饰）有着别人看来不幸的童年——父亲给她做健康检查时，发现她心跳过快，便断定她患上心脏病，从此艾米莉与学校绝缘。随后因为一桩意外，母亲在她眼前突然死去。这一切都毫不影响艾米莉对生活的豁达乐观。
1997年，戴安娜王妃的去世让她倍感人生的孤独脆弱，艾米莉从此开始了一系列助人计划，包括自闭忧郁的邻居老人，被老板刻薄的菜摊伙计、遗失了童年器物的旧房东、爱情失意的咖啡店同事。但她万万想不到，成人录象带商店店员尼诺（马修·卡索维 Mathieu Kassovitz 饰），竟成为她的棘手对象，艾米莉开始了令人哭笑不得的另类计划……