A Liverpool dock worker travels to America in the 1960s in search of his estranged father. He falls in love with a free-spirited young woman, and together they become involved with the civil rights movement and the campaign to end the Vietnam war. Musical, featuring a soundtrack of Beatles songs, starring Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood, and featuring appearances by Eddie Izzard, Bono and Salma Hayek.

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.