影片被描述为“对生命意义的诗意沉思”。故事发生在1955年左右的一座虚构的美国沙漠小镇，此时镇上正在举办初级天文学家/太空人大会，这个活动汇集了来自全国各地的学生和家长一起进行学术竞赛，但他们的行程被一场足以撼动世界的大事件给打乱。

Logan Roy及他的四个孩子控制着全球最大的娱乐媒体集团之一，年迈的父亲开始退出公司，而他的孩子则思索如何抓紧机会继承这帝国。

His name is Gary Hobson. He gets tomorrow's newspaper today. He doesn't know how. He doesn't know why. All he knows is when the early edition hits his doorstep, he has twenty-four hours to set things right

What would you do if tomorrow's paper came to your door today? If you knew that you were going to die? Be lucky in love unlucky in life? That's what Gary Hobson (Kyle Chandler) has to ask himself every day. Gary Hobson is a stockbroker that got fired from his job and his wife found him uninteresting and kicked him out. You see it's quite simple. Everyday an orange cat comes to his door with the paper. (A Chicago Sun Times). Gary doesn't know where it comes from. He did a bit of research and found out that a man named Lucis Snow, was an old typesetter and he had the paper before Gary. The day after Snow died, the paper came to Gary. Gary has two friends. Chuck Fishman (Fisher Stevens), who has been best buds with Gary since college. Chuck wants Gary to give him the scores of games, winning lotto numbers, stocks, or even soap opera tips. Marrisa is Gary's blind friend who helps Gary make all the right choices.

影片改编自真实故事，讲述两名时运不佳的音乐人（休·杰克曼与凯特·哈德森 饰）组成一支充满欢乐气氛的尼尔·戴门致敬乐团，证明了寻找爱情和追逐梦想永远不会太晚。