Inès在一家位于布加勒斯特的德国大型企业工作。她的生活一直井然有序，直到她的父亲Winfried突然造访，并向她提出了这个问题：“你幸福吗？”面对这个根本无法回答的问题，她的生活开始出现一系列翻天覆地的变化。她并不喜欢自己的父亲，甚至有点以他为耻，但他却通过捏造一个名叫Toni Erdmann的诙谐人物，试图为她的生活找到一个方向。

　　俄罗斯普通家庭因陨石坠落，获得了非凡的力量和成为超能力者，且只有当所有的家属在一起的时候才能发挥超能力。祖父成为不死者、父亲可以传送、儿子可以和动物对话，小女儿大力士、大女儿可以隐形，在得到上天给予的这种特殊礼物的同时，超级英雄的小家庭决定去打劫银行。

　　Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

　　Don (方力申 飾) 在村屋中醒來，發現身旁被綁少女丁丁(王菀之飾)！被指為綁匪的Don喪失了記憶，唯有放走肉參了事，但丁丁賴著不走！精靈愛搗蛋的丁丁心中另有謀算，威迫利誘終令Don答應陪她上演綁架戲，真戲假做，希望得到富爸爸的關愛！
　　「假」肉參與「假」綁匪的另類同居生活這樣展開，二人引發趣事連連，烏龍百出！相處數天，贖金未拿到，富爸爸不見影，二人卻錯有錯著，與村內一眾街坊不打不相識。
　　集愛情、友情、親情、人情的村子裏， 丁丁漸漸脫落刁蠻態度，Don由憐生愛，填滿了丁丁空虛的心。另一邊廂，丁丁父親在妹夫的喪禮中，聽了一席感人肺腑的話而明白到，就算丁丁有多不完美，但她仍是自己的女兒。
　　好景不常，丁丁被綁上綁！Don發瘋徹夜狂跑，誓要從綁匪手中救回她！卻駭然發現，整個故事非表面般簡單....