Diz (Joel Courtney) is a reckless teenage drifter living life on the run. Abandoned by his parents as a child, he looks out for himself and doesn't accept handouts. He takes whatever he wants and runs. Jaded and determined to answer to no one, Diz lives a life marked by thievery and abandonment. Things change for Diz when he floats into a small town on the Snake River. There he is confronted by an unflappable old man named Marty and falls for Marty's guarded granddaughter, Selah. When Diz robs a local drug-dealing crazy, he becomes the owner of a giant pile of cash and the target of two vicious killers. With more money than he knows what to do with, and criminals at his heels, Diz puts the people he's learned to care about in danger, still trying to win Selah. But some things can't be stolen or bought. The River Thief is a film about guilt, self-sacrifice, and accepting life as a gift.
理查德（杰·丹尼爾斯 Jeff Daniels 飾）是一位作家，人到年，體能漸衰退，創(chuàng)作欲望也偃旗鼓，進(jìn)入了作瓶頸期的不知道該如走出目前的境，擺脫這團(tuán)亂麻的失人生。 在妻子克萊爾（莎·庫卓 Lisa Kudrow 飾）的建議下理查德不情愿的來到了島換換心情在這里，他傭了十七歲艾比（艾?斯通 Emma Stone 飾）打理家中瑣事。比年紀(jì)輕輕卻因?yàn)橛兄?慘的過去而有著不符合齡的世故和成，一老一在僅存在于查德幻想中“神奇上校（瑞安·雷茲 Ryan Reynolds 飾）的幫助之下然生出了真的友誼，隨時(shí)間的推移兩人終于做了決定，消心中的恐懼擁抱美好的來?
