At the age of 29, Lisa Martin is trying to heal after her brutal marriage and bitter divorce from her sadistic ex. Forty-year-old Marc Guerrieri should be living it up now that his disastrous marriage to an Italin American princess is finally over, and his new book is creeping...
"Back to Life" tells of a black man and a white woman who meet the same day a black teenager is killed in Brooklyn by an Italian mob. Eventually they are able to surmount the rage, hurt, and fear left by their respective divorces and allow themselves to love again.