When Harry, the local cop, knocks on Paul Unger’s door early one morning to give him the grim news -- that his son, Stephen, has been found drowned -- Paul descends into a grief that carries him to a dark and unfamiliar place. His comfortable life is overturned, and he is left to question his own role in his son’s death. When, several years later, a woman returns to town with a boy who might be Paul’s grandson, Paul imagines in both of them a path back to his child.

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