The film stars Kelly Preston, Jenny Seagrove, Sally Phillips and Franco Nero.

[2] Upon getting the news that their friend Anna Farmer has passed, her three longtime friends— the single writer Kate, the married GP Liz and the divorced Hollywood television actress Cassie— reunite at her funeral.

Afterwards, her devastated mother Diana hands them an envelope containing four Eurrail tickets with a note, asking them to go for her to see a once-a-year natural phenomena in Palma with her teenaged daughter Maddie and again explore Europe.

Continuing to try to retrace their steps, which the meticulous Liz has mapped out, the financially-strapped Kate snaps at the more affluent Cassie for gifting them dresses the rest could not afford from a boutique.

Stopping for a drink at a place Maddie found online, soon after sitting, the guitarist there Colin approaches Kate.

He opens up to her, explaining he used to work in insurance, but decided to hit the road as a guitarist once his daughter was grown and he went through a divorce.

Colin lets Kate know he will be working in Barcelona for the next weeks, then the four women head to the rail station.

As they have lost Liz's fanny pack with their passports and money, they have to take smaller, regional trains to get back on track.

The friends make up, then they arrive to Palma Cathedral in time to see the Candlemas light show, the unique phenomena occurring only twice a year in which sunlight projects through one of its rose windows to the opposite wall, directly below the other.

The website's consensus reads, "It has a talented cast and an entertaining soundtrack, but the limp and predictable Off the Rails lives down to its title in the most disappointing ways.