April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico, where he learns that he became a father in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Is it fate?

Sam Shepard
as Walter Faber

Julie Delpy
as Sabeth

Barbara Sukowa
as Hannah

Traci Lind
as Charlene

Deborra-Lee Furness
as Ivy

Dieter Kirchlechner
as Herbert Hencke

August Zirner
as Joachim Hencke

Thomas Heinze
as Kurt

Bill Dunn
as Lewin

Peter Berling
as Baptist