lsabel (MichelIe Williams) has dedicated her Iife to working with the chiIdren in an orphanage in Calcutta. Theresa (Julianne Moore) is the multimiIlionaire head of a media company who Iives with her artist husband (Billy Crudup) and their twin boys in New York. When word comes to Isabel of a mysterious and generous grant for the financiaIIy struggling orphanage, she must traveI to New York to meet the benefactor Theresa in person.