The movie follows a young girl (Natasha Calis) who befriends a seemingly lonely and confined boy her own age, only to fall afoul of his mother.

"[4] Reeling from the loss of her parents, the teenager Maryann (Natasha Calis) moves in with her grandparents, and is grateful when she manages to befriend Andy (Charlie Tahan), a boy who uses a wheelchair.

As Andy is very sick he must stay within his home per the instructions of his mother, Katherine (Samantha Morton), who also forbids him from having any visitors.

They manage to get back inside the house and Maryann hides in the basement, where she discovers a comatose boy.

When Richard goes to get medical supplies, it is revealed he is having an affair with a woman called Sandra (Meadow Williams).

It is disclosed that the heart transplant, that is about to take place, is for the real Andy, Katherine and Richard's biological son.

The pair had abducted the real Jason as a baby, so they could harvest his organs, and save their ill son.

A frantic Katherine, refusing to accept that there is no hope for her son, subdues Richard with a sedative and pursues the children.

Katherine, who had caught up to Jason and Maryann, is informed via her pager that her son's ventilator has been unplugged, and runs back to the house.

"[9] John McNaughton sought a PG rating for the film, but failed: "I made a promise that I would deliver a movie with no overt violence, no bad language, no sex, no nudity.

There was just one guy, a wonderful man named Gerry Kessler who died since the movie was completed, who wrote one check out of his own pocket, for 6,5 million dollars.