The Secret Life of Words

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig. Hanna (Sarah Polley), a Yugoslavian native working in a factory in Northern Ireland, takes on a job as private nurse for burn victim Josef (Tim Robbins). As they get closer, they start sharing their experiences, including Josef's secret guilt and Hanna's traumatic past in the Balkan Wars. Eventually, Josef recovers and travels to Denmark to find Hanna, with whom he ultimately finds love.