现在还有人看超级英雄电影吗？　　息影导演为拍新片重出江湖，英雄演员练习生、过气老鸟、势利经纪人都来大蹭一场，各路人马齐聚，揭开好莱坞片厂最灰暗之处。　　“他”哪天才能从绿叶站上C位成为真正的银幕英雄?

落魄的过气男演员和前妻育有一女，离婚后，妻子带着女儿改嫁警察局局长。一日，演员父亲带着爱女一同去参加试镜，被留在车内的女儿却离奇失踪。警长父亲得知消息后，也加入搜索的行列。然而，搜救的过程中种种丑陋真相竟一一开始浮现。

Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.