This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing
mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg),
Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married
and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who
has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be
brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final
frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about
love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our
worlds irretrievably, forever.