影片讲述了红姐在动荡的社会背景下的命运多舛，这也是他们这一代普通人的共同命运的故事。
Different Drummers is based on a true story about two unusual boys in Spokane, Washington in the mid 1960s. In this more innocent time, when body builder Jack Lalanne ruled the airwaves, the two heroes, a couple of elementary school students, make a bold attempt to triumph over mortality through friendship. Eleven year old David is slowing down and is now wheelchair-bound by muscular dystrophy, while Lyle can't stop speeding up. Back then, he was referred to as having a condition called MDB (Minimal Brain Dysfunction) but today he would be diagnosed with "Attention Deficit Disorder." Lyle wants more than anything to get David out of his wheelchair and running again, and he concocts a wild scheme involving a science project, some firemen, drummers, the school principal, a cop and a hand-walk across the school gymnasium, among other things. It works like this: Inspired by his TV idol, Lalanne, and his message of "intestinal fortitude and willpower," Lyle manages to convince David that ...
May（杰西卡·贝尔 饰）曾经过着看起来十分完美的生活，体贴的男友，舒适的工作，安静而美好，但她总觉得缺少点什么，因此她做了一个决定，去寻找真实的自我。 某天May结识了一名私家侦探，通过侦探，她找到了自己的亲生妹妹，并且惊讶地发现她妹妹的住所离她并不遥远。她们自幼分离，这次相见，她的内心充满了忐忑，不知道究竟是好是坏，如今她的妹妹已经改名叫做Shiva（Zosia Mamet 饰），很明显，Shiva的生活一团糟……
