A father is preparing himself for his daughters dance competition, sees a little girl about to get run over by a car so he saves her, for his good dead he is visited by The messenger and she gives him one wish.

A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.

Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.