When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are odd, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. She wants to be treated like a woman, and she's drawn to George, a handsome photographer who longs for human contact but sleeps with a water-inflated doll and spies on Cheryl as she bathes. Jeff, a neighborhood clerk, may be Cheryl's only ally in what she doesn't realize is a perilous residence haunted by family secrets. And, what happened to Alice, a model who used to have Cheryl's room
豪富的巴克家族继承人——亚瑟（拉塞尔?布兰德 Russell Brand 饰）是纽约城里知名的彼得潘式的人物，他化装成蝙蝠侠横冲直撞之类的荒唐行为屡屡见报，令他执掌家族公司的母亲倍感压力。亚瑟如同无知孩童一般的行为屡屡需要老管家霍布森（海伦?米伦 Helen Mirren 饰）收拾残局，母亲无法忍受亚瑟为公司名誉抹黑的举止，以断绝其经济来源要挟亚瑟和自己得力的女助手苏珊成婚，苏珊颇有事业野心，一心要靠这场婚姻提升她建筑商家庭出身的地位。看见钱财份上向母亲低头的亚瑟在街上偶遇无证导游娜奥米（格蕾塔?葛韦格 Greta Gerwig 饰），后者的风采令亚瑟萌发了爱意，在结婚和爱情的分叉路口，亚瑟希望找到完美结局，而这可能是他有生以来面临的最强挑战。
