Walter (Ashton Kutcher), a wrestler, competes for a spot on the national team when he learns of his sister's brutal death. He comes home to help his mother; he works out, takes a dead-end job, and goes to the trial of the accused murderer. He becomes friends with Linda (Michelle Pfeiffer) where her husband is murdered and is left alone to raise a teen son, Clay (Spencer Hudson), who's deaf. Walter and Linda spend so much time together that they inevitably become intimate.
