A 35 year old woman encounters a 10 year old boy who is in love with her and is convinced he is the reincarnation of her dead husband.

A 35 year old woman encounters a 10 year old boy who is in love with her and is convinced he is the reincarnation of her dead husband.

A woman (Nicole Kidman) becomes convinced that a ten year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband.

A woman (Nicole Kidman) becomes convinced that a ten year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband.

Directed by Jonathan Glazer, Birth takes place in New York's Upper East Side, where Anna (Nicole Kidman), a 35-year-old widow, resides. Just as Anna has shaken off what she thought were the final remnants of her old life -- she has even found love with a new man, Joseph (Danny Huston), whom she plans on marrying -- Sean (Cameron Bright), a ten-year-old boy, comes into her life insisting that he is the reincarnation of her late husband. Though she initially brushes off the boy's claims as the result of a crush on her, his grave demeanor and uncanny knowledge of her life leads Anna through a self-reevaluation that not only threatens her marital plans with Joseph (Huston), but also strains her relationship with her mother, Eleanor (Lauren Bacall). - Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide