Can I Get a Witness? tells the story of a mother and daughter in a near-future world where huge sacrifices are made to maintain life on Earth.　　With its resources swallowed by e-waste and overpopulation, the world is experiencing an anthropogenic collapse. To manage, technological advances are shunned. Nobody has electricity and only people with exceptions are permitted cars. Most importantly, there is also a collective agreement that nobody is allowed to live beyond the age of 50.　　Oh’s Ellie lives with her teenage daughter Kiah (Keira Jang), who is starting her first day as a Documenter, an important role in this new world order. She uses her artistic gifts — beautifully conjured in animations — to draw the dying ceremonies, since printing and photography have been banned.　　Kiah is paired with Daniel (Joel Oulette), the young man who performs the contractual elements of each person’s end-of-life ceremony. He matter-of-factly provides the packages a person can choose, sets them up when the time comes, and performs the burials. But his new coworker is having a hard time handling the emotional impacts of the job.

　　兩名高等法院的法官遭殺手謀殺，法學(xué)院高材生達(dá)比（朱莉婭?羅伯茨 Julia Roberts 飾）隨后開(kāi)始調(diào)查此案，起草一份該案的報(bào)告，名為《塘鵝報(bào)告》。達(dá)比找到了記者格蘭（丹澤爾?華盛頓 Denzel Washington 飾），因?yàn)樗亲詈笠幻?jiàn)到其中一名法官的人，希望能得到他的幫助調(diào)查此案。一天格蘭接到了一個(gè)神秘人來(lái)電，此人自稱知道誰(shuí)是該案兇手，格蘭跟蹤到了此人，可惜未能攔下他。　　此時(shí)，總統(tǒng)暗中命令相關(guān)人士不要插手此案。格蘭由此起疑，隨后調(diào)查到了總統(tǒng)和馬氏集團(tuán)關(guān)系密切，而且一切證據(jù)都表明，馬氏與兩位法官的死有著千絲萬(wàn)縷的關(guān)系！

　　父親與少年關(guān)系生疏，兩人決定以一次狩獵之行緩釋心結(jié)，然而深藏在森林中的灰熊，卻早已為他們埋下了生存危機(jī)。