An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
电影描写托马斯与美国诗人约翰·马尔科姆·布林宁(John Malcolm Brinnin,1916-1998)的交往。后者亦曾与杜鲁门·卡波特、田纳西·威廉斯等人交友,1955年出版了《狄兰·托马斯在美国》(Dylan Thomas in America)一书,记录他请托马斯访美、陪他巡游的过程,沿途深为大诗人不停歇的醉酒和各种反常行为所苦。