Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Buster Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O'Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy's rich father (Frederick Vroom) has just sold to a small country at war.Agents for the other small nation in the conflict decide to set the ship adrift that same night. When Betsy's father checks up on the ship, he is captured and tied up by the saboteurs. Betsy hears his cry for help and boards the ship to look for him, just before it is cut loose.The Navigator drifts out into the Pacific Ocean. The two unwitting passengers eventually find each other. At first, they have great difficulty looking after themselves, but adapt after a few weeks. At one point, they sight a navy ship and hoist a brightly-colored flag, not realizing it signals that the ship is under quarantine. As a result, the other vessel turns away.Finally, the ship grounds itself near an inhabited tropical island and springs a leak. While Rollo dons a deep sea diving suit and submerges to patch the hole, the black natives canoe out and take Betsy captive. When Rollo emerges from the ocean, the natives are scared off, enabling him to rescue Betsy and take her back to the ship. The natives return and try to board the ship. After a fierce struggle, Rollo and Betsy try to escape in a small dinghy. It starts to sink, and the natives swiftly overtake them in their canoes. Just when all seems lost, a navy submarine surfaces right underneath them and they are saved.

停靠在路边的汽车内，黄毛小子瑞恩（飞·武 Phi Vu 饰）被其他汽车的喇叭惊醒，他昏头昏脑走下来，一路晃进校园，进了实验室。由于正在研究的装置耗能巨大，学院院长气急败坏责令瑞恩停掉在研项目。糟糕的事不止于此，事后不久他就被一个带着面具的家伙给杀掉了。然而，他再度醒来， 发现自己还躺在车里，而接下来发生的一切都和“梦境”中的一样。瑞恩惶恐不安，找到了好基友卡特·戴维斯（伊瑟尔·布罗萨德 Israel Broussard 饰）及其女友泰莉·格尔布曼（杰西卡·罗德 Jessica Rothe 饰）。这种生死轮回对于泰莉再熟悉不过了，她首先跟瑞恩讲述自己的经历，随后告诉他想终止轮回的方法只有找到凶手。而接下来，他们不仅发现瑞恩那台装置似乎是造成轮回的一个成因，而且泰莉再次回到了那个可怕的早晨……

阿凡（余文乐饰）自小便没有了父母，为了生活与好友阿明（黄又南饰）在戏院门口卖蔗。一天他们看到在街头上大打狮鼓的阿蓝（蔡卓妍饰）。阿明对阿蓝一见钟情，决定与阿凡一起到阿蓝父亲（葛民辉饰）的武馆以学艺为名接近阿蓝，阿蓝却对阿凡有意，阿凡决定成全好朋友，渐渐与阿蓝生疏了。在一个丧礼上，阿凡遇到了一个从小在尼姑庵长大的女孩——“灭绝师太“（钟欣桐饰），阿凡被她的美貌深深吸引，每天都偷偷跟着她到山上去。女孩终于发现了他，并对他产生了情愫，想让阿凡带她走出尼姑庵，去看看那个多彩的世界，出走后，便从此消失于阿凡的身边。阿明利用老电影的剧本，得到了阿蓝的欢心，可是阿凡心里还是念念不忘他的“灭绝师太”。

改革开放初期，罗心刚（杨在葆 饰）在广交会上发现本厂生产的凤凰牌产品无人问津，而本厂文革中遭冷遇的设计师申华（刘信义 饰）设计的产品却成了畅销货。罗心刚深受启发，他三顾茅庐请已被迫离厂的申华出山，同时纠正以前人们戴有色眼镜看人的错误观念。他决心走市场化道路，转变过去“皇帝女儿不愁嫁”的传统思想。罗的行动遭到传统势力的阻挠，别人认为他的行为背离了社会主义市场经济原则，面对种种困难，罗心刚始终坚持自已的信念。当看到共青团员巧珍（殷新 饰）因缺乏信仰脖子上带上十字架，他深感十年动乱在青年一代身上造成的信仰危机。改革是多方面的，且刻不容缓。在他人造谣告状，不得已面临下台的千人大会上，罗心刚说出了那段泣血的台词......