查理（尼古拉斯•凯奇）是个善良、温和、喜欢孩子的好警察，却有一个虚荣自私的妻子，他们像所有不搭调的夫妻一样吵闹不断，但是查理总是忍让。一天查理的妻子说梦见父亲并认定有特殊含义，叮嘱查理买彩票。善良的查理在早餐中没有钱付给伊娃小费，就约定如果彩票中了奖就一人分一半，如果没中奖则第二天来把小费补上。没有当真的伊娃没料到奇迹…

Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with…