The American daughter of missionaries Lana returns to Los Angeles from Palestine to work in a mission helping homeless people. Lana was born in Ohio and raised in South Africa and Middle East, and she is an authentic citizen of the world, connected through Internet and aware of how other people see the lack of culture and knowledge and exaggerated patriotism of average American people. Her unique relative is her unknown uncle Paul, a veteran of Vietnam War that cut relationships with his family and is bigot and paranoid. Paul lives in a surveillance van, lives as if he were a secret agent, sees conspiracy and terrorist cells everywhere, and has a great prejudice against Arabs and other non-American breeds after the September, 11th. They meet each other, and when they see the murder of a poor Pakistanis nearby the mission, they travel together to the small town of Trone to deliver his corpse to the family, where Paul sees a different reality. 四粒星。美國人的後九一一自我救贖。苍白的忧伤。原来是米雪。每个人心里都有一个城市的杂交记忆。911以後的後遺症。Heaven,。美国天堂。《迷失天使城》谁在探討谁……。隔靴搔痒。 母亲去世后，拉娜（米歇尔·威廉姆斯 Michelle Williams 饰）千里迢迢来到洛杉矶寻找自己的舅舅保罗（约翰·迪尔 John Diehl 饰），对于十八岁的拉娜来说，这趟旅程有着特殊的意义，它意味着拉娜必须抛弃过往的自己，向着更好更富有的新生活发起挑战，然而现实真的能够如同拉娜设想的一般美好吗？ 保罗是一名退役老兵，但在他的内心里，保家卫国依旧是他生命中的重中之重，即便深受战争后遗症的折磨和困扰，他对国家的忠心耿耿也没有半分的改变，即便这样的忠心并没有为他带来任何好运。就这样，在偌大的天使之城中，两个内心孤独的人相遇了，拉娜开始了和保罗在一起的生活。
