The dazzling rise of a young man who succeeds at everything is stopped in its tracks.

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Al is one week away from marrying the daughter of the director of the car dealership where his mother used to be the cleaning lady – and he's also set to be the man's successor. A brilliant salesman, Al has climbed the ladder to the top and is celebrating his well-deserved success. But his future is stopped in its tracks on the eve of the festivities: he hits a man with his car and, on the bad advice of his two friends, drives away from all that he has struggled to gain in his life. Unluckily for him, a woman witnesses everything from her window and helps the victim's girlfriend, a young undocumented immigrant from Moldavia. When she catches up to Al, she finds him – unsurprisingly – wracked with guilt and remorse...

Open your prayer books, the time has come to review the basics of Catholicism: guilt, spite, pardon, redemption, confession and penitence. Not everyone is prepared to pretend they are perfect, nor to be forced watch those who want to become that. The result: an overblown lesson in morality that drags down the whole film.