影片讲述的五个故事就发生在纽约人日常的生活中。特拉布勒斯是一名心理医生，他的病人桑的在经历911事件后，对周围的人、事感到愤怒和失望。特拉布勒斯运用自己独特的方法重燃桑的对生活的热情。艾米基勒是纽约市糕点主要供应商之一，为了揽到生意不择手段，把他的敌手一家逼上了绝路……911事件后，美国进入了后911时代，所以这是第一部直接反映911事件后，纽约人生活百态的喜剧，以及他们对于那段记忆的态度。注意，它决不是对劫后余生的悲剧反思。影片讲述了各成一体的五个互不相乾的故事，表现了故事中的人物经历了911事件后的心路历程。幽默的手段挥去了这个主题下的阴冷和沉重，体现了编者不同凡响的智慧。
In New York City, five concurrent and ultimately intersecting stories of emotional despair are presented leading up to the first anniversary of 9/11. Emme Keeler, a high end cake designer, and her businessman husband Danny are all about presenting the perfect life, much like the perfection Emme strives for with her cake designs. Despite that perfection, Emme and her team have lost most of the recent contracts against their main competitor, Safarah Polsky. Emme is hoping things will change with the upcoming annual competition to win the lucrative contract to provide the birthday cake for now teenager, spoiled heiress Lisa Krindle, Emme who will do whatever she can to get a leg up on Safarah. Married Allison and David Burbage do whatever they need to to provide for their adolescent son Charlie, who is in expensive therapy to deal with disruptive sometimes bordering on violent behavior against others. They may not realize that they are really placing their own relationship at risk in not putting effort into it in focusing on their direct roles what they feel are Charlie's needs. Both married with families, Avi and Satish are best friends, next door neighbors and coworkers, they part of the same security detail for the Indian government. While Avi chatters on about trivial matters in life in general as he and Satish spend hour after hour with each other, he may not be able to see that Satish is a powder keg waiting to explode. Elderly Judy Hillerman is in a routine and thus unsatisfying marriage to Henry Hillerman. Being in the twilight of life, she may contemplate having that small piece of happiness when she meets an old high school classmate, seemingly happy-go-lucky Jerry Binder. And in the lead-up to the anniversary, Sandie's company has offered him therapy as a survivor of the twin towers, many of his coworkers who he didn't know on the seventh floor where he was at the time using specialized equipment who didn't make it. The therapist, Dr. Trabulous, uses provocative, passive-aggressive methods to find troubles buried deep within mild mannered Sandie that may or may not be there, but which on the surface don't seem to exist..
