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.