David Lucas, one of the youngest war correspondents in the 90's, is now the producer of a talk show on issues of global security at American TV station. Now pushing 60, in spite of being a Pulitzer winner and living an adventurous life that many would dream of, David finds his life to be strangely hollow and without meaning. In fact, he secretly feels relieved when his doctor tells him that he has inoperable lung cancer from a lifetime of smoking, and that he probably has less than a year to live. When he sits down to make his "bucket list", he finds that there is really only one item that means everything - to see again, and possibly for the last time, the one woman who he really loved: Sophia Marinescu, who David met as a press correspondent during the Romanian Revolution in December, 1989. David travels to Bucharest and contacts Sophia. In the process of rekindling his relationship with Sophia, David discovers that he has a 25-year old son, Daniel, from his brief tryst with Sophia....