The convict goes beyond the anonymous role because he leaves a family: Leticia (Halle Berry), with an eviction notice posted on her door, and an obese son who seeks redemption in gluttony against the failure to be unhappy. It turns out that Hank also suffers a great loss, and that's when by mere chance he meets Leticia on the street, without guessing whose wife she was and without her guessing what he works for. When he finds out, he is already involved in the whirlwind of need and despair that unites them and in which he begins to see a torrid form of love and redemption. The racist white and the marginalized black need to retreat from their old principles and even deny the tombstone of their dead because they have already lost everything and any sliver of chance for happiness is welcome, no matter where it comes from. In a superb scene, Letícia, sitting on the porch in the backyard, silently reflects on the perplexities of chance. Beside her, Hank doesn't want to think anymore, but just live life from then on, while eating the little pot of ice cream he offers her, who accepts it with a finally complacent look to the future.