本(肖恩•比格斯代夫 Sean Biggerstaff 饰)是一个酷爱绘画的艺术系学生,他的脑海中总是勾勒着女人美丽的形体。然而,跟女友苏西(米歇尔•雷恩 Michelle Ryan 饰)分手的时候,本即使极力淡化也无法抹去失恋的伤痕。为了打发独处的时间,本选择应聘超市夜班职员。在这里,他可以静静地观察陌生的顾客,并由此串起了童年的美好记忆,比如那个作为交换生的瑞典女孩,那个付费看春光的邻家女孩,那个手臂打着石膏仍涂鸦的同学……慢慢地,在忙碌的工作与朋友的劝慰下,本逐渐摆脱了失恋的阴影,并开始追求那个学西班牙语的女同事莎拉(艾米丽雅•福克斯 Emilia Fox 饰)。然而,在一次为庆祝老板生日的聚会上,前女友苏西的意外现身却让他复原的伤口再度开裂,他跟莎拉的恋情是否会因此而告终呢?Ben Willis is an art student who works the night shift several times a week at the Whitechapel Sainsbury's. He's clear about the arrangement: he trades his time for money - cashback, as he calls it. We meet his co-workers, Sharon, Barry, and Matt, and their supervisor, Jenkins. Ben's colleagues are good at wasting time, but Ben talks to us about how he makes his shift go faster: by imagining that time has stopped. We see this late-night world of drudgery through Ben's eyes, as time does indeed stop, and he can get out his sketch book.