Everyone keeps telling Lenny Vincent that everything happens for a reason. He’s told it so often that he’s almost tempted to believe it. When he’s relieved of his position as coach to the under 11B soccer team at St. Benedicts, “everything happens for a reason.” When he’s fired from his job as a sports writer at a daily newspaper, "everything happens for a reason” and when his wife of 19 years leaves him for a young hustler, you guessed it – “everything happens for a reason!"
We meet Lenny on a very auspicious morning – the morning of his 50th birthday – a fact that seems to hold little significance to his overly–distracted, overly–peroxided wife, Barbara, whose pre–occupation with the treadmill seems to have long overshadowed their marriage.
No problem – there are worse things than your wife forgetting the most important birthday in your life! Right? Right! So, Lenny sets out to work just as he has done, every day, for the past 27 years – little realizing that, by the end of the day, his life will have changed. Forever!