After a holiday visit with his parents， Mikey is headed to the airport to return to his wife and newborn baby. Except he doesn’t board the plane. Instead he returns to his parents’ loft in lower Manhattan， back to his childhood room that has since been converted to storage. Unsure of his own motivations， he makes up excuses about why he’s staying – his flight is delayed， his flight is cancelled. A day passes， and then another， and he calls home and work to say he can’t return just yet – his parents are getting old， his parents are ill， time is too short. His doting mother is more than happy to enable his procrastination， while his artist father is suspicious. From afar， his confused wife grows increasingly unsettled. Meanwhile Mikey moves back into his room， digging out notebooks and mementos， calling on old friends. As the days go on he becomes more and more entrenched in his adolescent sanctuary， and comes to a point where he must choose between life as it is and life as it was. --© Official Sit不疯魔，不成活！

　　赫赫有名的好莱坞女明星琼克劳馥（费唐纳薇 Faye Dunaway 饰）一直都想有一个自己的孩子，然而她的身体已经无法再怀孕了，于是，她和情人格雷格（史蒂夫弗罗斯特 Steve Forrest 饰）领养了一个女婴取名为克里斯蒂娜（戴安娜斯卡维德 Diana Scarwid 饰）。随着克里斯蒂娜的年岁增长，琼克劳馥在影坛之中的地位亦越来越低，当她因为影片不卖座而遭到了制片公司的开除之后，她将所有的怨气都发泄在了克里斯蒂娜的身上生命可以归结为一种简单的选择：要么忙于生存，要么赶着去死。
　　琼克劳馥对于克里斯蒂娜的虐待日渐升级，她不仅常常对其暴力相向，还把她送进了修道院与世隔绝。克里斯蒂娜最终还是走上了和养母一样的道路——成为一名女演员。