Gaspar is back in New York working for a couple of days, caught between the taxis and his faults in French. He is supposed to have lunch with his father right before flying back to Brussels. They have not seen each other for a few years now. Something tells him it is wrong. Something tells him it is right. Trying to find ways to evade the silence, Gaspar will have to stop evading himself.

影片以12个清新小品的片段形式，以不同的叙述视角，拼合交织出美国著名诗人C·K·威廉斯的生活经历和诗歌作品。影片开始时，弗兰科饰演的威廉斯有一个漂亮的妻子，法国珠宝商凯瑟琳（Catherine Mauger，米拉·库妮丝饰演），和一个幼年的儿子。可随着一场纽约的朗诵会日益临近，他却遭遇创作瓶颈，无法写出作品，陷入对往昔的记忆之中——童年、第一次的甜蜜、失去的苦涩。

阿尔芬斯住在巴黎，杰瑞米住在纽约，因为两家人关系要好，两个男孩也成为了好朋友。阿尔芬斯利用假期来看望杰瑞米，但是他不明白为什么杰瑞米总是把时间花在观看野鸭身上。秋天渐渐来了，野鸭终于要开始南飞，而阿尔芬斯也即将回国，在别离到来的时候，他们开始生出不一样的情绪......