Stephen Gyllenhaal

Emotionally troubled, pregnant Rose leaves the husband she doesn't love and takes refuge in a remote Kentucky shelter for single pregnant women, where she meets and marries the shelter's handyman, beginning a new life with him and her daughter. Eventually, a difficult choice is forced on Rose when her first husband finds her.

Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.

Jessica Lange and Halle Berry give performances of uncommon poignancy and depth. Lange plays an adoptive mother who gives an abandoned child a new chance at life. Berry, in a remarkable portrayal heralded as her dramatic breakthrough, is the birth mother who cleans up her life and sets out to reclaim the child. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) portrays her firebrand attorney.