高中生男生艾德（奈特·沃尔夫饰）无意中发现自己的邻居大叔（米基·洛克饰）的神秘身份，因为这个貌不起扬的大叔竟然是FBI退休了的前探员,，在他的帮助下，艾德找回了生活的自信。然而他发现了一件事情，那就是这个非常有趣的大叔已经身患绝症时间不多了，他心里非常复杂，像打倒了五位瓶一样。ASHBY is a coming of age/approaching death comedy drama. A seventeen-year-old kid (Ed) trying to understand who he wants to be in the world, befriends a terminally ill ex-CIA contract killer (Ashby) who is trying to make peace with his life and God before he goes. 'Making peace' might just entail killing three old bosses who have tricked him into breaching his strange moral code.