Snow Cake

When illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways.

Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.

Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.

Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.

Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.