Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden give soaring performances in Rails & Ties director Alison Eastwood?s moving tale of people in crisis and emotions at the brink. Bacon plays Tom Stark a train engineer unable to face his wife?s (Harden) illness. Then a terrifying railway collision leaves a little boy orphaned. Tom takes the boy into his home and ? step by step strength by strength ? learns how to bond with the wife he adores by opening his heart to a boy who needs the security of a devoted family