A song reaches one stranger

Joseph sits on a Times Square ledge, listening to his mother sing. A clumsy movement sends the recording out into the night.

Felicia James stops. She does not understand the Russian. She wants to know what she is hearing.

“That was beautiful. What language was that?”

Rebecca’s recorded voice brings Felicia into Joseph’s story. The film opens earlier with “Broadway” in the school hallway; this encounter comes afterward.