Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.

Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Overture Films; Directed by Tom McCarthy
Rated PG-13; 108 minutes; 2008

Walter, a college professor, travels to New York to attend a conference and returns to finds a Syrian man and his Senegalese girlfriend living in his apartment. The couple has nowhere to go and when Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him they return his kindness by teaching him the exuberant rhythms of the African drum and rekindling his passion for life.