Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be a direct-to-cable / tv-movie...

This film reminds me of many Lifetime Network movies... direct-to-cable movies without any cinema or DVD presentations...

Anyway, this film is very touching... Unlike many Lifetime Network movies which are pure fiction, this film is soundly based in real-life events. SPOILER The movie focuses on two VERY different people who converge due to the HISTORIC events of 2001-9-11. SPOILER an alcoholic flight attendant finds herself in the custody of a minor (who happens to be Muslim) during / immediately-after the events of 9/11.

Both the child and the flight attendant endure "challenges" as they travel across country to return to New York (where the father of the child was working at the top of the World Trade Center on the day the planes demolished those buildings). The child believes his father is still alive, but it seems (never fully clarified) that the father died. Sadly, it turns out the father died, and the child is 'alone', except for the scholastic grant he received from LA (California) at the start of the film...

I won't say more for fear of spoiling the story but... I think the actors / writers did a fantastic job of showing us (the viewers) some real-life drama in the wake of the 9/11 terrorism, stuff not directly related to New York / World Trade Center / Pentagon, but mostly indirect...

Sorry if this doesn't make 100% sense, but I found it entertaining without being sappy/pedantic! In other words: flawed/believable characters struggle through an exceptional time of US/Aviation history. This film was released 10 years after the horror of 9/11 (year 2001), but it portrays the shock and horror as dramatically as possible today...