He suddenly shifts the point of view, and we find ourselves
looking at the scene through the eyes of lowly shad seeking a way up the river to spawn; through the eyes of
elderly citizens who remember their own childhood when the fish swam free; through the eyes of farmers with their oxen, barred from cutting hay.
As fate would have it, while performing for the
elderly at a senior
citizen center he meets a hauntingly - beautiful Marilyn Monroe
look - a-like (Samantha Morton).