Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.

麦克马伦三兄弟，帕特里克、杰克和巴里，出身于爱尔兰天主教家庭，所以，他们一旦结婚就不能离婚。作为老小的帕特里克眼下就与一个犹太女孩订了婚，但他却不肯定这是最佳选择，因为母亲在参加完父亲的葬礼，回爱尔兰寻找她的真爱之前，曾给三兄弟一句忠告：别犯同样的错误。已婚的老大杰克，给人的感觉是家庭美满，但却有婚外情发生。老二巴里有…

A woman gets entangled in a series of bizarre lies in order to take care of herself and her 12 year old son.