单亲妈妈阿琳·麦肯尼（海伦·亨特 Helen Hunt饰）生活拮据，为了抚养儿子特雷弗·麦肯尼（海利·乔·奥斯蒙特Haley Joel Osment饰）而拼命工作，唯有借酒消愁才能打发深深的失落与无助。相依为命的两母子，一直过着毫无希望的生活。然而这一切在有一天发生了改变。特雷弗的社会学老师尤金·赛门特（凯文·斯帕西Kevin Spacey饰）布置了一道特殊家庭作业：让世界变得更美好。深信善有善报的特雷弗，决心从自己做起，于是他把无家可归的流浪汉请到了自己家中。...
Lazareth follows Lee (Ashley Judd), an aunt whose life mission is to protect her orphaned nieces, Imogen and Maeve, from a self-destructing world, raising them in isolation until an outsider threatens their peaceful existence....
