瑞秋（凯伦·皮斯托里斯 Caren Pistorius 饰）和丈夫正在分居之中，目前由她独自抚养着年幼的儿子凯伊（加布里埃尔·贝特曼 Gabriel Bateman 饰）。离婚事宜的商讨令瑞秋心力交瘁，睡过头的她眼看着就要迟到，却不巧碰上了高速公路大堵车。 明明是绿灯，瑞秋却被停在她前面的一辆大卡车拦住了去路，失去耐心的瑞秋狂按喇叭，哪知道却惹恼了卡车司机（罗素·克劳 Russell Crowe...
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way....