故事發生在1977年2月8日，圍繞一名44歲的前房地產開發商Tony Kiritsis展開。他用槍劫持了貸款公司總裁Richard O. Hall，并在其身上綁了一個“死亡開關”，以此脅迫這位總裁在幾近零度的天氣里當著警察和記者的面穿過市中心的街道。

　　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.

　　阿美（王祖賢 飾）是個美麗的女孩子，可是天生腳就有殘疾。她的父親（黃霑 飾）因被堂叔欺騙買下了一間破舊不堪的超級市場，花掉了畢生積蓄的父親變得瘋瘋癲癲的。阿美既要照顧父親，又要幫忙打理超級市場，生活的重擔落在了她的身上。在一次交通意外中，司機梁少祖（周潤發 飾）以為自己 把阿美撞至殘疾，十分內疚，便決定要幫助阿美經營超級市場。阿美一開始并不信任梁少祖，到后來他聯合朋友來幫助自己的超級市場度過難關，心里滿是感動，兩人更墜入了愛河。

 普特里一直只知道她的母親薩里是一位才華橫溢的塔羅牌占卜師，深受眾多高官顯貴和商界名流的信賴。她對薩里幾乎沒有任何私人記憶，直到薩里在一場事故中喪生。有一天，普特里收到了一條手機短信——來自她已故母親的號碼。起初，她以為這只是個惡作劇。但漸漸地，這些短信開始指引她未來的命運——而這些命運真的發生了。普特里慢慢意識到，這些短信確實是她母親發來的。