It's a simple case of cause and effect. Hope dies and our dreams with it. Sooner or later we resign ourselves to the situation and stop hoping for change. We embrace hopelessness. That is Simon's life, a long series of disappointments. Despite all his good intentions and best efforts, nothing is going right. His wife is ill and bed bound. The medical bills are crippling, and he is in debt. His son John is rebellious and hell-bent and self-destructive. Simon's only source of joy is Anne, his beautiful teenage daughter. One day, overwhelmed by disenchantment and depression and having reached the breaking point, Simon confides in a stranger he meets in a park. Simon begins his journey back to hope, but nothing can prepare him for what he is about to discover. The shock he will feel - when he discovers the real and unseen cause of all his troubles.