On assignment in Thailand, French television journalist Marie Lelay is caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Pulled lifeless from the water, onlookers try to resuscitate her but leave her for dead. She gasps back to life after glimpsing the afterlife. Marie is reunited with her lover Didier after and they return to Paris. The experience interferes with her work, so Didier (also her producer) gives her a leave of absence.
In San Francisco, George reluctantly agrees to perform a psychic reading for Christos, a wealthy client of his brother Billy. An actual medium due to a childhood near-death experience, George quits as a psychic due to the emotional, disturbing impact of communicating with the dead. He asks if “June” means anything, which Christos denies; later he tells Billy that June was his late wife’s nurse, with whom he was in love.
In London, 12-year-old twins Jason and Marcus try to prevent their alcoholic, heroin-addicted mother Jackie from losing them to social services. Evading the authorities, Jackie sends Jason to the chemist to pick up her detox prescription, having finally decided to get clean. Running from street thugs, Jason is hit by a van and killed. Social services then put Marcus into a foster home.
Marie travels to Switzerland to meet a hospice director, a former skeptic now convinced the afterlife exists. She persuades Marie to write a book on her experience, in hopes the scientific community will accept the reality of life beyond death.
Laid off from his factory job, George is persuaded by Billy to revive his psychic practice. However, he impulsively travels to London, on a Dickens kick, listening to Derek Jacobi’s audiobooks, visiting the Charles Dickens Museum and attending Jacobi’s live reading at the London Book Fair, where Marie is also reading her newly published book, Hereafter. Handing George a signed copy, he has a flash of her near-drowning.
At the event with his foster parents, Marcus spots George, who he has read about online. George brushes him off and returns to his hotel, but Marcus stands outside until George agrees to do a reading. Through George, Jason tells Marcus he is happy in the afterlife, and that he had knocked off his cap to save Marcus at the train station, and not to fear being alone “because we are one.” With this closure, Marcus visits his mother, who is improving in a rehab center.
George leaves a note for Marie, inviting her to a café. He has a vision of them kissing. Their shared glimpses of the hereafter having made them better appreciate life, George and Marie sit together.
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