The life and career of Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow) depend on a subway train, whether she can catch it or not. From this moment, the film shows us two parallel lives. In one, Helen has boarded the train. In the other, the woman has missed the train. This difference radically changes the course of her life.
In the thirteenth minute the protagonist returns home to find her boyfriend in bed with another woman (Jeanne Tripplehorn). A brief discussion ensues, during which Jeanne Tripplehorn is sitting on the edge of the bed wearing a black slip that reveals a good portion of her right breast. Forty minutes later Gwyneth Paltrow has a brief sex scene in bed.
