The two women sitting at the emergency exit are very different from one another yet they have one thing very much in common - they are about to die.

When flight AS636 falls from the sky, Tom, a successful London businessman, loses his wife Beth and has to hold his fragile family together on his own. In Spain, bohemian artist Angelo is unable to deal with the loss of his girlfriend Maria and his world topples out of control.

As the year unfolds, both men learn more about the women they loved after their deaths than they knew during their lifetimes. At the anniversary of the tragedy,...