After moving to the USA from Europe to further both their careers - he a concert pianist and she a singer, the film chronicles the last 24 hours of their marriage months after their 7-year-old son was accidentally shot and killed by another 7-year-old child. The two boys were playing with a gun that had been mistakenly left in the house unbeknownst to the parents (Note: the film has one brief flashback to the day the boy was killed but he is never seen).