Audrey Burke (Halle Berry) and her warm and loving husband Brian (David Duchovny) have been married 11 years; they have a 10-year old girl Harper (Alexis Llewellyn) and 6-year old boy Dory (Micah Berry). Jerry Sunborne (Benicio del Toro) is a drug addict who has been Brian’s close friend since childhood.
Audrey gets bad news delivered to her door by the local police: Brian has been killed in an attempt to defend a woman when her husband was violent to her. On the day of the funeral Audrey realizes that she has forgotten to inform Jerry. Her brother Neal (Omar Benson Miller) drives to Jerry, tells him about the death, and takes him to the funeral.
Audrey invites Jerry to move into the room adjacent to their garage, which he does. It is a daily battle for him to stay off drugs, but Jerry and the children are fond of each other. Although Audrey and Jerry are not lovers, Audrey invites Jerry into her bed when she cannot sleep: she asks him to gently pull her ear as Brian used to do, as this helps her fall asleep; Jerry complies. Their bond is fragile. For example, Audrey is upset that Jerry succeeds in convincing Dory to overcome his fear of swimming underwater. Also, when Harper skips school on consecutive days, Jerry knows she attends a yearly film festival, a secret Brian had shared with Jerry but not with Audrey. Upset, she sends him away. Angered and hurt, he is about to steal silverware (although Audrey's suspicion in the past that he had stolen money was unjustified, it later returned), but one of the children convinces him not to. He does however start using drugs again. Audrey and Neal help him by paying for his drug treatment at a clinic. Harper is upset that Jerry, whom she sees as her new father, is leaving them. First she does not even want to say goodbye, but comes running after the car at last.
With Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro and David Duchovny.
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