Synopsis
Eddie is a wounded
war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an
uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside
amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident
kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling
cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that
heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life
is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew,
others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood
to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their
connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries
of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the
haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why
was I here?"