A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman.
Joe 'Tom' Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to starts working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. It's an aggressive company, where speed is everything. Doing too less runs in a day You're out. Red is the most experienced trucker, he can do 18 runs in a day. Tom soon makes friends with Lucy, the secretary, and Gino, a driver. But the record of Red intrigues him and he wants to break it. Gino advises against it, but he helps Tom when he wants to go through with it. Soon trouble begins when Red and the other drivers form an united front against Tom. Just when Tom has enough and decides to pack his bags, Lucy tells him Gino had a terrible accident. She also tells about the corruption of Hawlett Trucking.
哈里(伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰)是一个才华横溢的著名作家,由于他神经兮兮、过于疯狂,他一直过着支离破碎、混乱无序的生活。他把身边的人和周围发生的事都写进自己的小说里,把自己和多名女性的感情生活也写成小说出版,由此哈里伤害和得罪了身边很多人。哈里的真实生活与小说中的虚构情节不断交织,同时哈里发现自己的灵感开始枯竭。在哈里的生活过得一团糟的时候,他被母校邀请回校接受名誉学位,但他找不到一个可以陪他一起去的伴儿。他只好找了个妓女陪同,第二天朋友理查德也来陪他,路上他还从前妻手中拐来自己的儿子一同前去。四人在途中又遇到了什么,到达目的地之后又有什么状况? 哈里试图解构自己的现实生活、解构自己小说中的虚构人物的生活、解构小说人物在自己生活中起到的影响,这个不能正常运作自己的生活,却只能在艺术中发挥才能的天才作家,究竟能不能解构出自己人生中的“真相”。