作家本杰明·密（马特·达蒙 Matt Damon 饰）生性喜爱冒险，然而半年前的丧妻之痛令他至今无法释怀，儿子迪伦和小女儿洛希同样不能适应失去母亲的生活，迪伦因偷窃和阴暗的美术创作导致被学校开除，本杰明没有听从哥哥邓肯的建议，拒绝从新的爱情中获取乐观心态，也放弃了专栏写 作，筹划和儿女换到全新的环境继续生活。而本杰明的新家居然是一座荒废的动物园！因为看到了洛希和动物的友好接触，本杰明决定接收这座还收留着众多动物的野生动物园，并带领管理人凯莉（斯嘉丽·约翰逊 Scarlett Johansson 饰）率领的留守团队重新修葺动物园，希望在夏季开放之前，迎来动物园的再度营业和自己家庭的新生……
For 27-year-old Ben (Josh Lawson), life couldn’t be better. A well paid job, friends, parties, girls and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school to join several other ex-students including Alex (Rachael Taylor) and Jim (Ed Kavalee) in talking about their personal achievements, something goes wrong. Ben is the only speaker not to be asked a question by the school kids. This triggers a year of soulsearching and looking for answers in all the wrong places. From his best friend Andy (Christian Clark) whose solution is that they both take another holiday, to his mentor Sam (Lachy Hulme) who loans him a sports car in the belief that there’s nothing like excessive speed to resolve emotional turmoil. Not even Ben’s father (Rob Carlton) or friends Nick (Daniel Henshall) and Em (Felicity Ward) can offer much in the way of meaningful guidance. Of course, it’s not easy seeking enlightenment in nightclubs, or on the ski fields of New Zealand, and when you start dating a Russian tennis star things can get really complicated. As the poster boy for a generation desperate to tick every box, Ben begins to suspect that the meaning of life may well reside in the things he's already doing - and a girl he used to know.
日美（孙艺珍 Ye-jin Son 饰）的母亲在临盆当天死于难产，日美的父亲朱荣大（于东健 YuDong-Geun 饰）独立一人抚养女儿长大，把她视作掌上明珠。和日美青梅竹马的孙太一（车太贤 Tae-hyun Cha 饰）是釜山高中出名的差生，虽然行为大胆，性格叛逆，多次违反校规校纪，却把日美视为今生的唯一。在他向日美表白后，他的班主任，日美的爸爸朱大荣提出了以成绩超过日美为条件的公开招亲来激励太一。而太一决定，为了日美而洗心革面，发奋读书考上了法律学院。原以为到此就可以与日美结婚的太一，又被朱父的软硬兼施逼迫许下承诺，保护日美的处子之身直到他通过初级司法考试。为了考试而专注学习的太一一再的压抑自己对日美的欲望，甚至努力去忽视日美千方百计的示好。然而当埋头苦读的太一终于通过了考试之时，却听说了心爱的日美要与他人结婚的讯息，于是太一开始了挽救初恋的疯狂行动…
