Christopher is a widower , his wife of 22 years Savannah having recently died , and he begins drinking and becomes obsessed with the theory of past lives . Before long , he is convinced he is actually the reincarnation of a German resistance fighter ( Jo ) who was hanged by the Nazis for hiding Jews during The Holocaust . His situation becomes even more complex as his daughter Destiny 's wedding approaches , and Christopher 's sense of déjà vu around her fiancé , Ben , is enough to convince him that he and Ben were gay lovers during a past life . As Christopher becomes increasingly disturbed and goes about seducing his daughter 's future husband , he begins to reveal the strange , violent path his life had taken well before his wife died . Ben gives in to Christopher 's seduction and eventually visits Christopher 's psychic to confirm he really was Jo 's lover Alexander in a past life . Destiny discovers their affair and eventually gives them her blessing . In the end , she gives her father away at the church wedding that was originally supposed to be hers . The psychic reveals that Destiny had never really existed . Instead , she had been the spirit of a miscarriage Savannah had after she was raped . The spirit had always been destined to bring Christopher ( Jo ) and Ben ( Alexander ) back together in their present lives
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