12-year old dreamer Vlad likes telling fantastic stories about his courage to his summer camp friends, although he is a bit of a coward himself. But one day Vlad finds himself in a real adventure as he accidentally gets caught in a conflict between two alien forces. Shapeshifting Trashmen, descendants of an ancient alien civilization, try to disable electricity on the whole planet by deactivating the defensive shield that protects the Earth from an approaching solar wave. In this way they challenge the all-powerful and mysterious Energy that enabled humanity's technological progress and which we depend on more than ever. In this battle Vlad is helped by a transformer box called the Bobot, which holds the key to saving the world. While telling stories about fictional courage is easy, Vlad will find out that overcoming his fear in the real world is quite a challenge. Mankind's future lies solely in his hands.

托马斯（派屈克·福吉特PatrickFugit饰）身患重病，不得不以吸取人血为生。他的两个哥哥——德怀特和杰西（莫伊塞斯L·托瓦MoisesL.Tovar饰）围绕着如何照顾托马斯展开了争执。为了让弟弟活下去，他们不得不采取极端的措施，导致周围充满了死亡的气息。德怀特在这种残酷的现实和付出巨大代价的环境中挣扎求存。后来，德怀特遇到了当地的性工作者帕姆。他用金钱交换与她的交谈，希望通过这种方式摆脱恐怖的现实，寻找新的生机。然而，随着德怀特开始疏远自己的家人，特别是杰西，杰西也下定决心，不惜一切代价，将他带回家，不仅是为了拯救他的生命，更是为了保护家庭的完整和团结。