In New York, Janice Templeton is happily married to executive Bill Templeton and they live in a comfortable and fancy apartment with their eleven-year-old daughter Ivy. One day, Janice is stalked by a weirdo and she tells her husband. Soon afterwards the stranger contacts them and invites the couple to meet him in a restaurant. Elliot Hoover tells Janice and Bill that his daughter Audrey Rose died eleven years ago, burned in a car crash, and her soul has been reincarnated in Ivy's body. Bill and Janice believe that Elliot is nuts, and Bill tells his lawyer to get a restraining order against Elliot. However, Ivy has dreadful nightmares and only Elliot is able to calm her down. When Elliot abducts Ivy, Bill and Janice go to court to have him arrested. But Elliot wants to prove that Ivy and Audrey Rose are the same soul. 科学观和转世论的激烈碰撞。 以东方人早已有之的“再世轮回说"为题材的西片。影片一开始以一段风雨中汽车相撞的镜头作为序幕，其后，即以平静而缓慢的调子展开故事。邓普顿夫妇是住在纽约市的年轻恩爱夫妻，他们有一个十一岁的女儿艾薇，长得活泼可爱。可是自从神秘男子出现之后，这个幸福的小家庭却激起了致命的波澜。
