Pottan is going to a riding camp, but ends up at a recycling center where she is taken care of by the strange staff. One day Pottan finds out that the staff are building a space rocket....
退休的火箭工程师史老先生（Henry O 饰）来到美国，看望阔别十二年之久的女儿宜兰（俞飞鸿 饰），经历了离婚的女儿近几年一直没有再婚的打算，这让史老颇为纠结。白天女儿上班时，史老试图与年轻的美国邻居交谈，但语言与文化隔阂让史老只能停留在孤独的世界里。由于工作的特殊性，史老与宜兰一直缺乏沟通，美国之行也并没能改善两人的关系，所幸史老结识了一位伊朗老妇，他们时常用生疏的英语交流，而老妇最近喜得孙子让...
BUT NOT FOR ME IS A FILM ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR FULFILLMENT THROUGH ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, THE LINES WE DRAW AS WE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE OURSELVES, AND THE UNDERLYING TRUTHS THAT ULTIMATELY CONNECT US....