多恩（希瑟·玛塔拉佐 Heather Matarazzo 饰）是一个非常平凡的青春期的女孩，样貌平平，也没有什么拿得出手的特长，扔在人堆里眨眼间就会消失。多恩一直觉得自己简直倒霉透顶，爸爸妈妈将注意力都放在工作和优秀的哥哥姐姐身上，对自己无暇顾及，而哥哥姐姐也觉得有这样一个普通的妹妹很没有面子，而对她冷言冷语。好不容易找到一个心仪的男生，却在鼓起勇气告白之后遭到了无情的拒绝。而反观自己周围的人，好像每一个人都过得比自己要快乐。　　终于，忍无可忍的多恩决定离家出走，或许外面的世界会比这里要好得多。然而，事实真的是这样吗？

　　A comic celebration of dreamers and their dreams, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the second film written and directed by Tom DiCillo. With a tone that teeters somewhere between Kafka and the Marx Brothers, it chronicles the hilarious misadventures of a group of people who have joined together to accomplish one of the most difficult goals imaginable - the making of a low-budget independent film. With an innovative and surprising structure that shifts fluidly between the movie being made and those making it, the film offers a rare and accurate -- if comically heightened -- look behind-the-scenes, with the people who make the scenes. How they make them -- and the fact that they manage to make them at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIVION is all about.　　Starring Steve Buscemi as director Nick Reve, LIVING IN OBLIVION highlights a day on the set of Nick's film where everything that could possibly go wrong, actually does. Struggling against ever-escalating odds to maintain his integrity and his sanity, Nick is both helped and hindered by his bumbling, if well-intentioned crew, headed by his cinematographer Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), a cameraman whose leather gear suggests that he is more inspired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a leading lady, Nicole (Catherine Keener), a talented but neurotic actress who is involved in a romance and a rivalry with her leading man, Chad Palomino (James Le Gros); an iron-willed assistant director, Wanda (Danielle Von Zerneck); and, for the first time ever on-screen, a Gaffer.