簡介：In the US, there are now six states that offer the terminally ill the option of ending their lives with a prescribed cocktail of drugs.? Louis heads to California, one of the latest states to adopt this law, where residents can now take home a lethal overdose as long as they are terminally ill, of sound mind and strong enough to administer their own prescribed dose.? Here, Louis is invited into the family homes of those who want control over ending their own lives. But he discovers that when you have complete autonomy over your own death, choosing the right time is not such a simple decision.? Louis also meets a group who provide information about how to die to those who don't fit the legal criteria. With them, he meets a woman planning to end her life long before what would appear to be her natural time, raising complex moral and legal questions about how much control we should have over our own deaths.
喬治（詹姆斯?斯崌山爾特 James Stewart 飾）在圣誕節(jié)前準(zhǔn)備自殺，這上帝傳來旨意，派天使拯論衡他并讓他了解到自己一生的使命—拯救那些不幸的人。喬治小候左耳有疾，在貝德福中山鎮(zhèn)上一家藥店幫工。他很機(jī)靈，深老板器重，同時(shí)也很招女孩喜。某日，老板接到愛子死亡的報(bào)，悲痛欲絕，配錯(cuò)了藥，幸喬治才化險(xiǎn)為夷。喬治從小那父如仇，尤其看不慣富人專橫跋。長大后，喬治一表人才，準(zhǔn)去讀大學(xué)。這時(shí)，他的父雙雙去了，他子承父業(yè)，協(xié)助叔父料公司事務(wù)。然而公司經(jīng)營狀況佳，在董事會(huì)會(huì)議上面禹破產(chǎn)如果公司破產(chǎn)，小鎮(zhèn)將會(huì)有很家庭陷入困境。喬治力排眾議說服了董事會(huì)，但是條件是他擔(dān)任董事會(huì)秘書長。這與他的學(xué)夢相去甚遠(yuǎn)。而且，此時(shí)美山陷入了對一個(gè)女孩的愛戀之中?
