一对年轻的布鲁克林夫妇前往北部，他们断开了手机，与自己重新建立联系。由于切断了电子设备，他们错过了地球正遭受攻击的消息。

中年单身程序设计师马特决定要当父亲，通过面试找到26岁的咖啡店服务生安娜代孕生子。安娜因与家人关系僵化，搬至旧金山，她希望通过代孕能获得供自己完成学业的钱。在孕期马特积极介入安娜的生活，事无巨细，安娜也逐渐接受马特的亲密，彼此敞开心扉，建立了一段不太寻常的友谊。

Set in near-future inland Florida, Teenage Euthanasia centers around the owners of Tender Endings funeral home, the Fantasy Family: Grandma Baba, her adult children Uncle Pete and Trophy, and Trophy's teenage daughter, Euthanasia ("Annie"), a name accidentally given to her during the time of Trophy's own unbearable suffering. Back when Trophy was a teen herself; she ran away from home after giving birth to Annie, leaving her newborn to be raised by Baba and Uncle Pete. Now, 15 years later, Trophy returns to Tender Endings...as a corpse, for burial. When a bolt of lightning strikes Baba's homemade embalming fluid and one of Annie's tears, Trophy comes back from the dead. As a resurrected woman, Trophy has a variety of quasi-useful death powers. But more importantly, she has a second chance at unplanned parenthood.

主人公是一个叫戴维·曼恩（丹尼斯·韦弗 Dennis Weaver 饰）的中年男人，这天他在空无一人的州际公路上独自驾车。随后一辆大卡车出现了，挡在戴维前面，他毫不客气地超过对方。而后两车在公路上互相超了对方的车，一开始戴维还气冲冲地想超过对方走在前面，后来他却发现大卡车司机像发疯一样想置他于死地。他只好停下来，在路边餐厅整顿一下准备继续上路，发现那辆形如鬼魅的大卡车停在外面，戴维甚至不知道司机是谁。随后大卡车一直追逐着戴维，他想尽办法也甩不掉这辆大卡车，他只好与这辆如影随形的卡车展开决斗…… 本片是斯皮尔伯格的处女作，在美国获得了艾美奖最佳音效剪辑，斯皮尔伯格也因此片获得了拍摄《大白鲨》的机会。