本片讲述莎莉范伦提在中学时十分叛逆,是老师和同学眼中的问题人物。但是在婚后,却被平凡而刻板的婚姻生活把她改变成一个终日对着厨房墙壁自言自语的家庭主妇。她曾经问过自已:下半辈子生活是否就如一池死水这样过下去呢?结果,一次希腊之旅改变了她的人生,让她找回了失去多年的自己。本片寓意着,已婚的中年妇女只要凭着决心和一点点机遇,平凡的生活还是有出现第二春的可能的。Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.