At the beginning of the film, we will be introduced to a mother named Adele and her son,
Henry. We can see that both of them seem to be having a pretty happy life together.
Adele is a single mother after her husband named Gerald decided to marry another woman.
After their divorce, Gerald always asks Henry to live with him, but Henry doesn't want to leave
his mother alone because his mother is doing great. Adele, on the other hand, doesn't mind
about Gerald's marriage, and decides to accept her ex-husband's decision with grace. In fact,
she has now lost the sense of love, which makes her pensive and lonely all of the time.
The new semester is about to start, where Henry begins to prepare his school supplies and attire.
Since the pants are no longer fit, Adele and Henry decide to go to town to buy him new pants.
While Adele is at the supermarket shopping for clothes, Henry approaches her and asks for
permission to go to the comics section on the back shelf of the store. At this age, Henry appears to
be more interested in adult magazines. While he is viewing the comic books, a man with a suspicious
condition suddenly approaches him and asks for his assistance. This guy's name is Frank, and he asks
Henry to give him a ride because he is bleeding. Frank then takes Henry to his mother. At first,
Adele feels very suspicious of him and refuses to comply with his request.
But since Frank poses a slight threat, Adele is forced to follow his request.
Frank then asks Adele to drive him to her house since he has no intention of stopping by.
As they arrive at Adele's house, she offers Frank a cup of coffee while keeping the knife
in her pocket. Frank then tries to confess to Adele and Henry that he actually just escaped
from prison. He escaped by jumping from the second floor of the hospital, while undergoing an appendectomy.
At this point, Frank intends to stay until the evening while waiting for his injured
leg to recover. He also plans to wait for the train to pass, before attempting to hitch a
ride away from their place. After hearing this, Adele tries to be firm with Frank,
telling him not to hurt herself or Henry, even though it's hard to believe that he would.
Soon after, they see the news about Frank's escape which begins to spread through media and
on television. Henry sees it and he asks Adele if it is against the law to hide a fugitive.
Adele who is worried and scared responds that everything will be fine because Frank will only
be hiding for a few hours before continuing on his run. Frank realizes what he's doing and says that
if someone stops by, he will pretend to kidnap them so that Adele doesn't get caught by the law.
Therefore, Frank ties Adele to a chair as a preparation so that it doesn't appear that
they are plotting to hide the fugitive. Actually the knot that is used on Adele could have been
untied by herself but she doesn't want to let it go considering their current situation.
After tying her up, Frank prepares a meal for Adele, with a portion of the meal reserved for Henry.
In the middle of the night, Henry awakens from his sleep and notices
that Frank has let his mother to sleep in her bed, but he still tied her up.
It turns out that Frank is still in the house and has fallen asleep downstairs.
The following morning, Frank helps Adele with all of the housework, including fixing the stairs,
cleaning the house, changing the car's oil and replacing the furnace filter.
After that, he teaches Henry a good way to play baseball. Adele and Henry appear to be yearning
for a husband's and father's caress at this time, which actually comes from a fugitive from prison.
While Adele is sewing Frank's pants, they suddenly hear a loud knock on the door.
Frank immediately tells Henry to say that his mother is not at home.
When Henry opens the door, it turns out to be their neighbor. He stops by to bring
them some peaches while reminding Henry to be careful in the current situation.
After that, Frank comes up with an idea to make a pie out of quite a lot of peaches.
It is during this time that Henry and Adele grow closer to Frank.
Plus, Frank teaches them how to bake one by one in a very calm manner.
While enjoying their pie in the evening, Frank gives Adele a little touch.
It makes Adele feels so comfortable that she leans her head on Frank's shoulder.
But they suddenly hear the sound of a police car passing in front of Adele's house.
This makes Frank realize that he has to leave them at that moment. But Adele and
Henry instead stop him, and Adele tells Frank to stay until the wound is completely dried.
The next day, Henry sees Frank cleaning the roof of his house while Adele prepares coffee for him.
He also fixes the wooden planks on the stairs, fixes the door hinges and replaces the car tires.
Regular tasks that are usually carried out by the head of the family.
After that, Henry is told to go to the supermarket and buy groceries.
In the supermarket, he meets a girl named Eleanor, who has recently moved to this town.
Eleanor then asks him what she could possibly do in this town.
After he buys the groceries, Henry immediately returns home but he forgets to close the door
properly. Soon after, their neighbor named Evelyn suddenly enters their house, causing Henry to
panic. It turns out that Evelyn needs to leave her son, Barry, to Adele because she has an
emergency things. Adele initially refuses because she is concerned that Barry will find out about
Frank's appearance. But Evelyn keeps insisting on it, and Adele is forced accept her request.
Since Barry is disable and can’t communicate normally,
Frank doesn't mind showing himself to Barry. Plus, he also brings Barry to play baseball
with him behind the house. He trains Henry as well as Adele on how to hit a baseball right.
Adele's body is frequently trembling with tremors, which makes it difficult for her
to hold the baseball bat. But Frank continues to help Adele until she manages to hit the baseball.
As they watch television at night, they see the news about Frank again. At this moment,
Barry appears to be a little taken aback by the fact that Frank is an escaped police prisoner.
Evelyn has finally returned and wants to pick up her son.
As expected, Barry keeps trying to tell his mother that Frank is there.
After Evelyn and Barry return home, Henry overhears Adele and Frank's discussing their plans
to travel together to Canada. The next morning, Adele and Frank ask Henry to go to the library
to borrow a book about the country of Canada. While in the library, Henry meets Eleanor once
more, who turns out to have recently moved from Chicago. Plus, she's moved because of
an eating disorder, and her parents think that the new school environment will help.
But according to her, her mom is actually only wants to get rid of her so that she
can fool around with her boyfriend. Henry then tells the story of Frank, who appears to have a
story that is almost similar to the girl's. As she hears his story, Eleanor persuades Henry to
get rid of Frank because Frank might take his fallen-in-love mother and leave Henry alone.
As he gets home, Henry starts tor feel down, and he notices a newspaper with a 10,000 dollar reward for
whoever finds Frank. In the evening, his father takes him out to dinner with his new family.
When Henry returns home, he sees Frank and Adele are dancing together.
Adele informs him that they will be relocating to Canada and start a new life there.
When Henry heard those words, he immediately thinks of Eleanor's has said. He thinks that his
mother would leave him, but her mother assures him that she will never do that.
Adele informs that Henry will have to leave school, and not to tell anyone about this.
The following morning, they start packing their belongings in preparation for their
upcoming move to Canada. Frank discovers Adele's family album, and Henry then
asks permission to go out for a while. It turns out that Henry goes to see Eleanor,
where he tells her about his move tomorrow. Eleanor then kisses Henry,
as if she couldn't bear the thought of having to say goodbye to him. Adele, on the other hand,
is concerned because Frank's wound gets infected which makes it difficult for him to walk. When
Adele decides to go buy some medicine, she looks nervous, where she begins to tell her past story to Frank.
After Henry was born, Adele and Gerald planned to have a second child. But they
always failed because Adele often miscarried until she was unable to become pregnant again.
That's what made Gerald decide to leave Adele, and start a new family with someone else.
As a result, she stops going for a walk, and cannot leave the house. Adele feels sorry for
Frank because she can't give him a family, but Frank says that she has already given him one.
We also learn why Frank was imprisoned here. Frank shares that he was a military soldier who rarely
returned home, and that he had a wife named Mandy. Their marriage was very fragile because Mandy
often cheated on him with other people and had children. One day, Frank finally found out that
the child that Mandy gave birth to was not his. This of course made Frank angry and he pushed
Mandy, which caused her to accidentally bump and die. Henry also couldn't accept the fact that
Mandy had let her son to drown in the bathtub. The following day, on the
day they will be relocating, Henry writes a letter to tell his father that they are moving to Canada.
On his way home, Henry is approached by the police who offer to take him home.
In order to avoid being suspected, Henry is forced to return home with the police.
When they arrive at the house, Adele is
shocked to see Henry coming home with the officer.
The police officer is a little curious as he notices a lot of stuff in her car. Adele says they are
going through their belongings and getting rid of what they don't need. Frank is
watching from above, and he immediately hides when he sees the police officer comes in to help them.
After the police officer has left, Frank asks Adele and Henry to go to the bank to withdraw
their preparation money. Unfortunately, while Frank is swapping out the menthol lamp,
Evelyn suddenly burst into
the house. She comes to bring food as a thank you to Adele for taking care of her son before.
At this point, Frank realizes that his situation has already in danger because the news about him
has spread everywhere, but he can no longer do anything.
Evelyn also looks a bit shocked when she notices his present.
Frank then takes the food and says that
he is just a handyman who came to fix some damage. After withdrawing their money from the bank, they
immediately returns home. But as Henry and Adele get home, they have no time to do anything because
they start to hear the sound of police sirens is getting closer to their house.
They realize that someone has leaked Frank's whereabouts to the police. Following that, Frank
immediately pretends to kidnap Adele and Henry so that both of them would not be prosecuted.
Frank believes it's likely that they will meet again in another 20 years. Adele and Henry burst
into tears as they realize their efforts have been in vain. In the end, Frank surrender himself to
the police. After the incident, Adele and Henry go to the prosecutor's office to request that
Frank's sentence be reduced and explains that he never hurt them. But they are informed by the
prosecutor that the confession is not required to be recorded. This is due to the possibility that
Adele will be subjected to legal action and will lose custody of Henry. After that, Frank is still
sentenced to 10 years in prison for escaping and 15 years for kidnapping. Within a month,
Adele who's in depressive state, voluntarily relinquishes custody of Henry to his father.
Henry occasionally visits to see Adele, but Adele would always acts busy and distracted.
As the time passed, Henry grows up and he joins his school's baseball team.
He finally has someone he can call girlfriend for the first time.
At this age, he begins to apply what Frank had previously taught him.
Henry now owns a bakery where he sells pies that are inspired by the recipe Frank taught him. His
pie is currently in high demand on the market as well. Until one day, he receives a letter from
Frank who has recognized his pie. Frank explains that he found an article about Henry's pie and
is very proud to see a picture of Henry on it. Frank tells Henry that he will be free soon,
and promises Henry that he will not cause Adele any sorrow. On the day of his release,
Frank is greeted cheerfully at the prison gates by Adele, who is aging just like him. They
then hug and cry as a sign of relief that their 20 years of waiting is finally over.