中年男子查理，本是職業棒球選手，由於受傷而不再能馳騁於運動場。此後他謀生不順，個性變得乖僻難纏；他自暴自棄，終日酗酒。妻女離他而去。當他得知獨生女連婚禮也不要他參加，他覺得自己被打碎了。他決定自殺。
 
他在一個靈異般的情境裡與死去的母親重逢。他回到老家所在的小鎮，陪母親渡過了一天。這一天，很平常；這一天，卻也很不一樣，因為，母親終於說出了那個祕密。
 
父親當年為什麼要拋下他們，離家出走？這個問題像一個不曾痊癒的傷口，在查理心中淤著血。而今，這個祕密像煙一樣浮出，遮住了天空，他震驚也茫然——在今生與來生之間的某一個地方，查理重新認識了自己的母親，得知了母親為家庭所做的犧牲。
 
查理努力記住他在與母親重逢那天所得到的溫柔和理解，把他以為已經破碎的生命重新拼湊起來。查理重新活了一次。
 
意外與母親相聚的這一天，讓查理懂得了什麼叫「家」。家，不需要你講道理，只需要你理解，接受，然後，愛。


This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father--and she dies while he is gone.

This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life.

But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with her--the day he missed and always wished he'd had.

He asks the questions many of us yearn to ask, the questions we never ask while our parents are alive. By the end of this magical day, Charley discovers how little he really knew about his mother, the secret of how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the second chance to save his own.