This production of 'Twelve Angry Men', written especially for Studio One, is shorter than the film version and leaves a few twists and turns of plot undeveloped, but it is fifty minutes of class nevertheless. For many years this episode was thought to have been lost. The Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center) had only the first 30 minutes of the hour-long program on a kinescope provided by CBS - the only version CBS had. After nearly 30 years of searching, a copy of the complete program was found in 2003 by filmmaker Joseph Consentino, who was working on a documentary about noted defense attorney Robert Leibowitz (Leibowitz reported on the Charles A. Lindbergh baby kidnapping for the NY radio station WHN) and found a copy of the show in the archives maintained by the children of Leibowitz, Robert Leibowitz and Marjorie Leibowitz Finch. Samuel Leibowitz requested and received a commercial-free kinescope copy of "Twelve Angry Men" from CBS shortly after it aired because of his interest in legal issues. The Leibowitz children donated the kinescope to the museum and it had a re-premiere in May 2003.
丹尼斯(安德鲁·加菲尔德 Andrew Garfield 饰)独自一人抚养着儿子康纳(诺亚·洛马克斯 Noah Lomax 饰),父子两人和丹尼斯的母亲林恩(劳拉·邓恩 Laura Dern 饰)住在一起,日子过得虽然拮据但是平静。 金融危机爆发后,丹尼斯的人生彻底的跌入了低谷。面对着他再怎样努力都无法负担的房贷,无奈的丹尼斯只得申请破产,一家人被赶出了他们的家,流落街头,生活陷入了绝望之中。为了夺回属于他们的家园,丹尼斯发誓要不择一切手段,他遇见了贪婪邪恶的房地产经纪人瑞克(迈克尔·珊农 Michael Shannon 饰),成为了他的爪牙,讽刺的是,当初,正是瑞克让丹尼斯失去了他的家园,而如今丹尼斯所要干的,无非是和瑞克一样的事情。
母亲死后,原本生活在被大量外国移民视为淘金天堂的“元都”少女被送到妓女固力果(卓娜)处,将少女暂时收留后,固力果依据纹在胸前的蝴蝶给她取名凤蝶(伊藤步)。不久,凤蝶在固力果的带领下于名为“青空”的废品安置区兼汽车修理站,结识了火飞鸿、狼朗等来自不同国家的“元盗”,并逐渐与他们熟识成为好友。一盘录有美国歌曲《My Way》并隐藏有制造伪钞磁性感应资料的磁带令众人一夜致富,而在发财后,他们也开始走上不同道路,其中有出色演唱天赋的固力果被唱片公司签下,并在公司逼迫下与大伙断了关系。而磁带的主人,黑社会老大刘梁魁(江口洋介)得知磁带下落后,开始派手下追杀火飞鸿、固力果等人,众人的命运开始相互牵制。
一位单身母亲和她的小女儿努力维持生计,直到他们从祖父那里继承了农舍。 当一个家族企业的竞争对手派武装人员用武力将水权带到农场的小溪时,情况开始失控。