Sometimes stopping is the most important part of the journey...

Marc Evans directs a script by Angela Pell, co-produced by Henry Normal and Steve Coogan's Baby Cow.

Alex (Alan Rickman) is a quiet, brooding man struggling to come to terms with the death of a hitchhiker killed in his car in a brutal crash. In the aftermath of this harrowing ordeal, he comes to stay in a small Canadian town with Linda (Sigourney Weaver), a highly functioning autistic woman whose life has also been touched by tragedy. As they each attempt to deal with their losses in their own distinct ways, Alan strikes up a relationship with Maggie (Carrie-Anne Moss) and finds himself experiencing long-buried depths of emotion.

Snow Cake was chosen to open the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, with the director, Marc Evans, receiving a nomination for the Golden Bear.