In the winter of 1982 three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body mid-air in the mountains of Norway, during a rare celestial event. What they are about to discover will affect their lives forever.

越战后期，美军上尉威拉德（马丁•辛 Martin Sheen 饰）奉命沿湄公河而上，搜寻脱离美军在柬埔寨建立了自己的王国的科茨（马龙•白兰度 Marlon Brando 饰）上校，将他带回或杀死。