旅行者奇诺（Kino）骑着她那会说话的摩托车汉密斯（Hermes）到各个国家旅行，在每个国家奇诺都只停留三天，在她体会了该国家人民的文化、风俗之后，她便离开并前往另一个国家……

　　--世界は美しくなんかない　そして それ故に 美しい--

　　--The World Is Not Beautiful,Therefore It Is--

　　--这个世界并不美丽，然而，又因此而美丽--

When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.