内森（拉里·戴维 Larry David 饰）本来是一家电动车公司里的营销主管，然而，在和老板威尔（乔·哈姆 Jon Hamm 饰）大吵一架之后，内森遭到了解雇。因为这一宗意外，导致内森之后的人生全部都乱了套，没了工作，牵连到婚姻也划上了休止符。十年之后，形单影只的内森躲在一个偏僻的小岛上，过着隐姓埋名的生活。 　　一天，内森震惊的发现，自己的前老板也来到了小岛上，他要在这里装修他的度假别墅。十分憎恨前老板的内森决定对他进行报复。内森想方设法混进了施工队，想要从中破坏，随着时间的推移，工头麦肯齐（菲利浦·贝克·霍尔 Philip Baker Hall 饰）、前女友温蒂和好友弗兰克等人都被卷进了这场闹剧之中。A PR specialist refuses to market a car called a "Howard" - a colossal error that loses him a billion dollars and makes him a national joke. He loses his hair, shaves his beard, takes a new name, and moves to Martha's Vineyard. Jump ten years: "Rolly" is a popular local whose sangfroid evaporates when the Howard's inventor moves to the island. Rolly, his old self unrecognizable, hatches a plan to rid the island of his nemesis; he also decides to woo the billionaire's wife. Fellatio, a former girlfriend, a woman who's lost weight, her boyfriend, the band Chicago, a menacing Chechen, a bus load of ill children, and a pair of ne'er-do-wells with experience with explosives figure in the story.