故事发生在巴西一处龙蛇溷杂的中产阶级社区裡。在这裡的人们，并不拥有可以挑选邻居的权利。当社区裡出现了小偷，为了保卫自己的利益，人们于是找来保镳或养起看门狗。当社区中有钱的地主家族也涉入了暴力事件，到底又会是什麽样的一场人性斗争。

在20世纪70年代以前，摇滚乐还是男性的天下，即使它的影响力以遍及世界各地，但全女子的摇滚乐团却从未出现。18岁的琼·杰特（克莉丝汀·斯图尔特KristenStewart饰）是一个狂迷摇滚乐的叛逆女孩，她始终渴望组建一支女子摇滚乐团。在经纪人金·弗利（麦克·谢农MichaelShannon饰）的帮助下，他们找到了15岁的切丽·柯里（达科塔·范宁DakotaFanning饰）——与琼同样来自南加州且喜爱大卫·鲍伊的女孩——担任主唱。在此之后，吉他手丽塔·福特（ScoutTaylor-Compton饰）、鼓手珊蒂·韦斯特（StellaMaeve饰）、贝司杰基·福克斯先后入队，全女子乐队“逃亡”正式成立。女孩们由此展开了多姿多彩、忧喜相伴的音乐之旅……\r本片根据切丽·柯里（CherieCurrie）的自传改编。

　　Just two weeks before Roya, a banned Iranian journalist, is set to emigrate from Iran to Denmark at her husband’s insistence, she encounters a quiet young girl. The girl seems lost and doesn’t remember anything. Roya takes her in, unaware that the girl has abandoned her previous life and now has come to replace Roya. A couple of days later, Roya finds out that she will be prohibited from leaving Iran unless she sells out a colleague to the government authorities. Soon after Roya refuses to betray her friend, the young girl steals Roya’s identity and takes over her life with the assistance of Roya’s husband, Babak. As Roya fights to recover her identity, she realises, to her surprise, that no one remembers her anymore and that everybody takes the lost girl to be her. Babak throws Roya out of the house, at which point the authorities decide that Roya is to be exiled to another life as a passive housewife named Hanieh.

On January 1, 2003, in the south of Brazil, Laura, matriarch of a family of the upper middle class, found his family in their country house, for a Sunday meal. But on this day of President Lula's inauguration, nothing is going according to plan. As an echo to this political earthquake, everything seems to be deregulated in the property: the domestic revolt, the house is visibly...

The summer before she goes away to college, Tamara encounters a girl with a scar on her chest. As the summer winds on, she finds herself increasingly attracted to Heartless.