1980年代的英格兰，爱德华（比尔·米尔纳 Bill Milner 饰）是一名十岁的男孩，爱德华的妈妈（安-玛莉·杜芙 Anne-Marie Duff 饰）努力经营家庭养老院，爸爸（大卫·莫瑞瑟 David Morrissey 饰）却正陷入一场中年危 机，与来帮忙的少女牵扯不清。生活在老人中间，爱德华很好奇当这些老人死后会发生什么，他用偷录老人离世时屋中噪音的方式来寻找死后生命的证据。一天，爱德华遇到了新来的老人克拉伦斯（迈克尔·凯恩 Michael Caine 饰）。克拉伦斯是一位退休魔术师， 整日悲伤，对爱德华很凶。但这一老一少在彼此的交往中却形成了一种奇怪的友谊……...
She’ve got the e-mail from him who she doesn’t know. He talk to her some memories that they loved each other. But she really doesn’t know who he is....
One has to be brave enough to accept loosing old self for the sake of growing up. Kira becomes adult briskly, watching her family and soviet childhood smashing into pieces. So does Ukraine in the early 90th, launching painful process of transformation into an independent country....
