Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

1966年，大西洋北海上漂浮着的一艘船，是深受不列颠听众喜爱的摇滚电台的大本营。因吸毒而退学的 Carl（汤姆·斯图里奇 Tom Sturridge 饰）被母亲 Charlotte（艾玛·汤普森 Emma Thompson 饰）送到这里，认识了 Quentin（比尔·奈伊 Bill Nighy 饰）、The Count（菲利普·塞默·霍夫曼 Philip Seymour Hoffman 饰）、Dave（尼克·弗罗斯特 Nick Frost 饰）等热爱音乐崇尚自由的人。另一方面，政府高官 Sir Alistair Dormandy（肯尼思·布拉纳 Kenneth Branagh 饰）决定设法取缔非法电台。随着政府向电台的赞助商施压，电台的收入持续降低。此时，出国两年现已享有国际盛誉的 Gavin（瑞斯·伊凡斯 Rhys Ifans 饰）决定海归，解决了电台的难题。可是，因为 Gavin 的回归，电台内部出现了一些新的问题……