From the outside, Julia and Michael seem to have it all. Both products of difficult childhoods in rural West<br/>Virginia, they become high school sweethearts. Now in their thirties, theyre living a rarified life in a<br/>multi - million - dollar, Washington, D.C. home. Julia is a sought - after party planner and Michael has just sold his beverage company for 70 million dollar. Then Michael collapses. Four minutes and eight seconds after his cardiac arrest, a portable defibrillator jumpstarts his heart. But in those lost minutes he becomes a different man. Money is meaningless to him and he wants to give it all away. Julia, who sees her life reflected in scenes from the worlds great operas,<br/>has three weeks to make a choice: Walk away from the man she once adored, but who became a stranger<br/>to her even before this pronouncement, or give in to her husbands pleas for a second chance and a<br/>promise of a poorer but happier life?