拉合尔市集的一间茶馆里,巴基斯坦男子跟美国陌生人叨叨述说自己的故事。当夜越来越深,男子的故事渐渐透露出,两人的相遇或许并非偶然…… 来自巴基斯坦没落家族的成吉思,曾经努力编织美国梦,而他也的确拥有了许多移民梦寐以求的生活:从普林斯顿大学毕业,被曼哈顿的顶尖财务顾问公司招揽,跟气质高雅的富家女谈恋爱,挤身纽约上流社会。没落贵族出身的他悄悄以为,命中注定他就是要过这样的生活。然而,九一一恐怖攻击之后,什么都变了。成吉思陷入剧烈的挣扎──周遭的世界、自己深爱的女人、内心的自我认同,所有的一切开始分崩离析,而一些过去从没注意过、潜藏在心底最深处的东西开始涌出。涩谷24小时主题曲A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. The sailor, Gennarino, who is a communist, does not like this woman but has to bear with her bad mood. One day she wakes up late in the afternoon and asks to be taken to land where everyone had gone earlier. Gennarino sets up a boat but during the trip, the boat breaks down. They spend the night in the middle of the sea.