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.

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.

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