On a Friday after a horrific train crash three newsmen in Adelaide must take stock: Nick a photojournalist learns he has cancer; Andy a writer with two children who has a bad relationship with his ex learns his girlfriend Anna is pregnant; Phil an editor realizes he's missing his children's growing up. That afternoon Meryl an artist who illustrates sympathy cards and constantly imagines disasters witnesses a train accident kill a man. At the crash site she meets Nick and a relationship flowers over the next three days which makes them both question their lives wants and needs. Nick's mother Andy's kids and ex the dead man's girlfriend the driver of the train and his son round out an ensemble of grief and sorrow as each character becomes linked to another through the train accident. Can decisions to act bring hope?