1969年的阿拉巴马,吉姆•卡尔德维尔刚刚得知了自己前妻的死讯。很多年以前,他的前妻为了一个英国男人而离开了他,并留下了三个孩子。而现在,她已经死了,她的新任的丈夫和新的孩子来到了阿拉巴马,这一切都因为他的前妻有一个愿望,要把自己的尸骨埋在自己的出生地。 这个事件把两户毫不相关的家庭和一群同母异父的兄弟姐妹凑到了一起。吉姆是一个非常传统的家长,他并不对每件事情都过问,而且还是一个很内向和腼腆的男人。他收藏的车自被那群反战的孩子贴上了各种各样的海报。当然,这出和前妻“相见”的事情以及那个不请自来的英国人,对他起到了很大的改变作用。A young man in the 1940s raises a family in Alabama after his wife leaves him for an Englishman and moves to England. When the wife dies, she leaves a request to be brought back to Alabama to be buried, and at that point the man hasn't seen her in nearly 30 years. The two families - her original family she abandoned and her English family - meet and make an attempt to adjust to each other, with uneven results.