A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. A monk witnesses five people die when a Peruvian footbridge collapses. He wonders: why those five? He seeks to prove that divine intervention rather than chance caused these deaths. The movie stars Robert De Niro. "Narrative of great power, simplicity and beauty... [Waterston] reads intelligently with just the right somber tone."—AudioFile