Kiran, a 1st-generation Punjabi trucker and anxious dad-to-be, stumbles across Elena, a 9-year-old undocumented Mexican-American, who changes his expectations of family as he takes her cross-country to find home.

托尼（维果·莫腾森 Viggo Mortensen 饰）是一个吊儿郎当游手好闲的混混，在一家夜总会做侍者。这间夜总会因故要停业几个月，可托尼所要支付的房租和生活费不会因此取消，所以他的当务之急是去寻找另一份工作来填补这几个月的空缺。在这个节骨眼上，一位名叫唐雪莉（马赫沙拉·阿里 Mahershala Ali 饰）的黑人钢琴家提出雇佣托尼。