Two men who have nothing in common except that they'll soon both be 'kicking the bucket' from terminal illness decide to go out into the world to do all the things they've always wanted and never got around to, according to their 'bucket list'. First meeting while sharing a hospital room together, corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson), and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) begin a sacred journey together, and in the process become unlikely friends, heal one another, and ultimately find the joy in life that they'd lost or never known.