为免日后回想过往时后悔，大学即将毕业的明相（东明相）请假只身骑上脚踏车，开始了以高雄为起点的逆风向的环岛旅行。                                                                      　　明相一路所遇，除了各地美不胜收的风景，还有形形色色的人：想借助影像制造梦想的工作者，正一心一意地将太平洋的风捕捉入镜；来自立陶宛的年轻女模特，在花莲的海边告诉他她的国家没有山；即将退休的小学女教师，向他讲述自己恋恋不舍的心情；导游兼司机的陌生人（吴念真）一边和他分享盒饭，一边告诉他眼前这群下岗女工的生活……而更重要的，是通过与这些的人的短暂接触和所吃的无数苦头，明相对生命有了更深一层的认识，他知晓了属于自己的生命练习曲，才刚刚开始。

This production of 'Twelve Angry Men', written especially for Studio One, is shorter than the film version and leaves a few twists and turns of plot undeveloped, but it is fifty minutes of class nevertheless. For many years this episode was thought to have been lost. The Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center) had only the first 30 minutes of the hour-long program on a kinescope provided by CBS - the only version CBS had. After nearly 30 years of searching, a copy of the complete program was found in 2003 by filmmaker Joseph Consentino, who was working on a documentary about noted defense attorney Robert Leibowitz (Leibowitz reported on the Charles A. Lindbergh baby kidnapping for the NY radio station WHN) and found a copy of the show in the archives maintained by the children of Leibowitz, Robert Leibowitz and Marjorie Leibowitz Finch. Samuel Leibowitz requested and received a commercial-free kinescope copy of "Twelve Angry Men" from CBS shortly after it aired because of his interest in legal issues. The Leibowitz children donated the kinescope to the museum and it had a re-premiere in May 2003.

该剧根据令人难以置信的真实故事改编，讲述巴西渔夫若昂(让·雷诺 Jean Reno 饰)在巴西海岸偏远的岛屿海滩上救下了浑身沾满石油、濒临死亡的企鹅丁·迪姆(Din Dim)。