When Stella finds out her terminal cancer is cured, she's going to have to learn to live with all the choices she's made when she decided to "live like she was dying".

Suchart, a man whose wife and child were murdered in their apartment. Suchart, the suspected perpetrator of the crimes, is determined to prove his innocence and find the culprit of the crime.

In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced that he is deaf and mute. Deciding that silence offers some power and protection, the boy decides to remain mute and just listens to all that is being said around him by people who think that he cannot hear.

本作は、仕事や家族を失い人生に迷う男性が、唯一の技能である手話を活かして「手話通訳士」になり、新たな人生のスタートを切る物語。殺人事件をめぐるミステリーとともにストーリーが展開する。