The movie opens with Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) coming home from work. You see a sweeping shot of the ghetto where he lives. He comes home and gives a hug to a beautiful woman (Olivia Wilde). He then wishes her happy second 25th birthday. The woman is his mother and is celebrating her 50th birthday in real time. She asks to see his arm to view the remaining time he has, and asks where the time from his shift went. He presents her with a bottle of Champagne and tells her that it went to this. She reminds him that they owe money on rent and their loan today. Salas says he can always fight for money, but his mother reprimands him, telling him not to be like his father. Salas tells her he will meet her at the bus stop the next day. This will be after he gets paid so he will be able to give her more time. She stops him as he is leaving and gives him thirty minutes so that he can have a good lunch.