Ophélie is a grieiving young widow, Matt is a heartbroken artist. Both feel as though they have lost everything until they find each other.

After winning a grant, Omar Razaghi travels to the estate of the late Uruguayan author Jules Gund in order to convince his three executors to let him write an authorized biography.

Two strangers meet at a New York subway station as both are contemplating jumping in front of the train. Since they both can't jump at once they decide to get together to try and work through their despair. Rain is a stripper who has no friends or family. Anthony lost his son in a car accident and doesn't want to carry on. At first it looks like the two have nothing in common but they can't seem to stop from meeting up Eventually the two find...

Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.