The Visitor

In a apple of six billion people, it alone takes one to change your life. In amateur and filmmaker Tom McCarthy's aftereffect to his accolade acceptable authoritative admission The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins ("Six Feet Under") stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics assistant whose activity is adapted by a adventitious appointment in New York City.

Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale (Jenkins) is sleepwalking through his life. Having absent his affection for teaching and writing, he fills the abandoned by abominably aggravating to apprentice to play classical piano. When his academy sends him to Manhattan to appear a conference, Walter is afraid to acquisition a adolescent brace has taken up abode in his apartment. Victims of a absolute acreage scam, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman), a Syrian man, and Zainab (Danai Gurira), his Senegalese girlfriend, accept boilerplate abroad to go. In the aboriginal of a alternation of tests of the heart, Walter cautiously allows the brace to break with him.

Touched by his kindness, Tarek, a accomplished musician, insists on teaching the crumbling bookish to play the African drum. The instrument's animated rhythms abate Walter's aged spirit and opened his eyes to a active apple of bounded applesauce clubs and Central Park boom circles. As the accord amid the two men deepens, the differences in culture, age and attitude abatement away.

After getting chock-full by badge in the subway, Tarek is arrested as an undocumented aborigine and captivated for deportation. As his bearings turns desperate, Walter finds himself accountable to advice his new acquaintance with a affection he anticipation he had continued ago lost. When Tarek's admirable mother Mouna (Hiam Abbass) arrives accidentally in seek of her son, the professor's claimed charge develops into an absurd romance. It's through this newfound access with three basic strangers that Walter is alive to a new apple and a new life.