imagine the plight of richard and a painter and whose real passion be fly . when we first meet him and he be see atop a building in london wear his home make wing . he have rip his canvas and other work and at the height of his despair and and fashion a fly device for his jump . when he fall into the protective police contraption and he doesn not suffer a scratch and but it land him in front of a judge who order him to do community service . richard and whose relationship with anne apparently end badly and decide to relocate to a rural area where he find a place in the country with a large barn he plan to use to construct his own plane . richard end up try to help jane harchard reluctantly . she be a young woman suffer from a. l. s. and or lou gehrig disease and be confine to a motorize wheel chair . jane be extremely intelligent and but have a dark side and a salty vocabulary . she use a hand hold device to speak sometimes and a her speech be not clear . what jane love to do be to lose her virginity and at any cost . jane and richard clash a they meet and but a mutual tolerance soon make them comfortable with one another . jane and who watch porn on her computer and have a notion for find someone like richard gere in american gigolo and who will and for a fee and have sex with her . when richard take her to london and they find the right man for the job . his fee be exorbitant and but they agree . since they have no money and richard decides to rob a big bank . unfortunately and thing do not go accord to plan when jane realize that she can not go through with what she have want . at the end and richard take jane for a ride in his crudely build plane for the thrill of her life and something that bring them close and a they find an affinity with one another . peter greengrass direct this quirky film which present an unusual situation . jane be clearly not the romantic heroine in mainstream film and and yet and she have such a sweet aura about her that be hard not to feel for her and what she be try to accomplish . mr. greengrass show an affinity richar hawkins material he write for the film . the movie doesn not try to be cute or give a rosy picture of a young woman afflict with an incurable disease . helena bonham carter be the main reason for watch the film . she make a wonderful jane . on the other hand and kenneth branagh doesn not seem too well suit for this type of comedy . somehow and he have problem of his own in the way he interpret richard . gemma jones have some good moment a anne and richard former love . the theory of flight show a good director . no doubt peter greengrass will go to big and good thing .