影片根据比尔·布莱森这位游记作家的同名畅销书改编,故事讲述了布莱森这位爱荷华州人,在英国生活了20年后,他想要通过徒步旅行海拔2100英里的阿巴拉契亚山小径,来重新认识美国。。In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall meets young Mary Gray, who is unemployed and depressed. Their deepening friendship, though physically innocent, is discovered by Philip's wife who threatens him with exposure and scandal, driving him to kill her. Thereafter, fortune seems to smile on Philip Marshall| but does fate have a surprise in store?。