吉米（查宁·塔图姆 Channing Tatum 饰）曾是风光一时的体育明星，却因为受伤而不得不告别体坛，如今的他在一家高速公路收费站里工作，生活的窘迫而又窝囊，更糟糕的是，就连这份工作最终也抛弃了他，他被解雇了。
玛莎（艾伦·德杰尼勒斯 Ellen DeGeneres 饰）每日沉浸在工作之中，根本没有时间谈情说爱，因此，年近三十的她依旧过着单身生活。某日，一位名叫威曼（比尔·普尔曼 Bill Pullman 饰）的男子出现在了玛莎的身边，威曼英俊、多金、迷人又慷慨，更重要的是，他似乎对玛莎情有独钟，遇见这样一位几乎完美的白马王子，玛莎立刻被迷昏了头脑。玛莎决定同威曼结婚，然而此时，她却发现，威曼并不是她所想象的那样完美。威曼的女友尹佳（琼·库萨克 Joan Cusack 饰）疯狂而又善妒，而他的母亲（琼·普莱怀特 Joan Plowright 饰）是一个离不开自己儿子的女人，更糟糕的是，威曼对玛莎的爱意似乎已经浓烈的超越了正常范围。
An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a white postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka. This is a poetic story, a mosaic of the playful world springing from the wild imagination of the village postman and its clash with the pragmatic mundane reality that finally beats the rosy dream's of the young protagonists. Director Dusan Hanak and screenwriter Dusan Dusek's most popular film has been cherished by critics as well as wide audiences at home arid abroad.
故事分成三個章節：主要的章節由高達親自飾演導演，正要趕乘飛機，在24小時內把一部電影的菲林交給監製；同時一隊二人流行電子音樂組合，不斷排練歌曲，最後在路上表演；另一邊廂，愚笨的大肥佬捲入一宗事件，被神秘女人密切監視，最後更被拘捕。三段故事看似毫無關連，實際是高達以電影來討論電影製作和藝術創作的重要。片名看似帶有弦外之音，就像高達暗示，假如監製或其他人要干擾導演的藝術創作，就索性我行我素，忠於自己的道路好了。這大概亦示範了高達如何純熟地運用電影媒體來做評論。 A film in three chapters: Godard plays the director in the main chapter, rushing to catch a plane to pass the negatives to his producer within 24 hours; an electronic duo keeps rehearsing for their roadshow; a clumsy fat man gets involved in an incident, and is arrested after being watched by a mysterious woman. Seemingly unrelated events, Godard is discussing the importance of film producer and artistic creativity. Godard is making the statement that if a producer or anyone interferes with creativity, it is better for the artist to go one's own way. A showpiece of how Godard uses the film media as his critical essay.
