While on a visit to his friend's village, a college boy explores a dilapidated villa, falls unconscious and learns all the details about his past life of love and sorrow.
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
Film, sıkı kurallara bağlı bir hayat yaşayan başarılı mimar Jonathan’ın hikayesini anlatıyor. Jonathan’ın ikiz kardeşi John ise tüm gün uyumakta ve geceleri sosyalleşmektedir. Jonathan, kardeşi John’un Elena adında gizli bir kız arkadaşı olduğunu öğrendiğinde ondan ilişkisini bitirmesini ister ve hem meraktan hem de kıskançlıktan kendisi Elena ile bir ilişkiye başlar. John bu ilişkiden haberdar olduğunda, Doktor Mina Nariman’dan yardım istemesi için kardeşini ikna eder.
Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on the reservation list. However, she is granted the chance to return to Earth as an "angel in training" with the requirement to help a soul in need. Sarah has the 12 days before Christmas to secure her place on the list leaving her in the race for her after-life.