As bacteriologist Lena (38) drives past a burning car, she hears a scream of a dying woman. Lena does not tell her boyfriend how much the incident distresses her, just as she does not talk about the stillbirth she recently had. Instead, she throws herself into her work, intrudes into the life of the deceased, begins an affair with the widower and gradually takes on the role of mother to their son. Her persistent insomnia causes her to lose control between dreams and reality. Finally she accepts the help of a whisperer and then finds her own way to cope with her loss

　　一宗牽涉兩條人命的嚴(yán)重交通意外，揭開(kāi)了令人震驚的秘密；一對(duì)母女被迫面對(duì)家族的傷痕，探索愛(ài)的定義，并重新認(rèn)識(shí)彼此。
　　影片改編自《愛(ài)情，到此為止》原作者科琳·胡佛的同名暢銷(xiāo)小說(shuō)。