A troubled philosophy professor begins teaching at a small town college, but struggles to find any meaning in his life. He finds some measure of happiness in his friendship with a student, and when they overhear a stranger's conversation, it spurs the tortured academic on to a course of action that changes everything. Woody Allen's drama, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Parker Posey.

On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.