this be a movie that do not seem to go anywhere and the end doesn not make any sense but there be other part of the movie that do not make sense either . the movie begin with a man run and then collapse . we do not know who the man be and why he collapse and or what happen to him because the movie then cut away to the birth of a child . in a roundabout and murky way and viewer learn that he die and the following birth since perhaps be to symbolize his reincarnation . the infant then grow up and come into the life of the widow of the man play by nicole kidman a a ten year old boy who claim that he be her former husband . he demonstrate this to her by an intimate knowledge of their married life together and the question be if he be not the reincarnation of him and then how do he gain such knowledge . early in the movie there be a scene in which the boy see another woman bury a box and and then go to a party give by kidman and the boy follow the woman to the party . the clue raise the suspicion that the boy locate the box and it content reveal information relate to the previous marriage but on the other hand and if that be what happen it doesn not make sense and because if the boy be busy dig up the box and the woman would have be long go by the time he finish and and he couldn not have follow her . far and even if there be information in the box about the prior marriage and it would never have reach the detail that the boy later disclose to the widow and and since the boy confront the widow very shortly after the box be bury and he would not have have time to have read and memorize all the information contain therein . all the viewer know about the boy be what they see after he begin follow the woman so viewer know nothing of his character or his prior life . he be virtually faceless . viewer may have difficulty recognize kidman at first because she have a hair style completely different than that which make her such a vivacious actress . but ann hecht also wear a red wig instead of her usual blond hair and i do not know who she be until i read the credit at the end of the movie .