Much better is the heartrending, tragic-comic scene when Eckhart's Howie takes it upon himself to show the house to prospective buyers, only to fall apart when they come to the nursery.
It is a heartrending tale of a passionate young woman from the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York, who is driven to become a healer because of the early deaths of her mother, father and brother.
Omirbaev tells the tale with briskness, simplicity, and restraint, getting his actors to move smoothly and to speak with understated, pointed calm and capturing their heartrending action in mock-bland images that alternate between stern assertion and stunned disbelief.