What can a man do when his life has reached a dead end?
Harry Saunders is unhappily married, in a job he hates and has a Big Birthday looming.
A passionate cinephile, he uses films as an escape from dreary reality, viewing the people and situations he meets through the prism of classic movies.
Harry is resigned to a bleak future until a sudden and unpremeditated act of courage propels him into a succession of sometimes absurd, sometimes dangerous, but ultimately life-changing situations.