Tony (Viggo Mortensen) is a lazy and idle scoundrel who works as a waiter in a nightclub. The nightclub has to close for a few months for some reason, but Tony's rent and living expenses will not be cancelled, so his top priority is to find another job to fill the vacancy of these months. At this juncture, a black pianist named Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) offered to hire Tony. Don Shirley is about to start an eight-week tour in the south, but at that time, discrimination against blacks in the South was very serious, so Tony became Don Shirley's driver and bodyguard. Along the way, the two people's very different personalities caused a lot of conflicts between them. At the same time, the unfair treatment that Don Shirley suffered in the South also made Tony feel disgusted with racial discrimination.