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A gripping family drama that weaves together stories about the value we place on a human life.It' s 2010 and Frank has just learned that Britain' s National Health Service will no longer pay to keep his comatose mother on life support. He and his estranged sisters— two in the US like him and the other in the UK with their mom— open painful family scars as they wrestle with the moral issues of ending their mother' s life or draining their bank accounts to temporarily extend it.Meanwhile, Frank' s son is making a very different calculation. From an Air Force base in Nevada, he operates a predator drone 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. Each of his kills, he' s told, will save the lives of multiple Americans his high-value targets would otherwise take out. One day, through his eye in the sky, he notices the daughter of the man he' s been ordered to surveil, and he soon becomes obsessed with her. As his imagined relationship takes on a life of its own, the kill order comes in and he' s forced to weigh the costs of following— or not following— orders. A world away, one of the most-deadly earthquakes on record hits Haiti, trapping Frank' s sister' s Haitian-born girlfriend in Port-au-Prince. Cut off from the outside, she must fight for survival and will learn that a life can be as inexpensive to save as the price of a gallon of water.As the stories intertwine and eventually come to a head, a most unexpected miracle will remind them all of the true value of a human life.
