A.G. Sulzberger’in The New York Times için yazdığı bir makaleden yola çıkan "Kodachrome"un konusu şöyle: Matt Ryder (Jason Sudeikis), uzun yıllardır ayrı kaldığı ve ölmekte olan babası Benjamin (Ed Harris) ile birlikte ülkeyi boydan boya arabayla geçmek zorunda kalır. Dünyanın en ünlü fotoğrafçılarından biri olan Benjamin, ‘Kodachrome’ film basabilen son laboratuvar kapanmadan önce, elindeki dört eski film rulosunu laboratuvara götürmek istemektedir. Benjamin’in hemşiresi Zoey (Elizabeth Olsen) ile birlikte üçlü, geçmişlerini arkada bırakarak, analogtan dijitale geçen dünyada bir seyahate çıkarlar.

Kodachrome

Imagine leaving everything you have, everyone you know, everyone you love, behind. Having to cross half a continent on foot, atop freight trains, inside truck trailers. Swimming across wild rivers. Crossing borders illegally. Walking across the Arizona desert. Being shot at, robbed and beaten. Raped. Surviving it all. Crossing into the USA, after life in the poorest parts of Central America. Succeeding. Now. In the “promised” land, you don’t belong, legally; or socially. You don’t understand the language. No one knows you arrived, no one knows you exist. Imagine…. being Nobody. Then imagine a bag being shoved over your head. Getting your clothes stripped from you. Getting tossed in a closed room with a dozen others. A loaded gun is pointed at your head. You are forced to call back home and beg for money, a ransom for your life.