Playing by Heart - Cincinnati. An intriguing patchwork of relationships converges into a portrait of modern love in Playing By Heart, a wry, satisfying emotional saga. The film is built around a series of apparently unrelated vignettes. An older couple fail to discuss the husband s recent fatal diagnosis.
Adulterous lovers meet for a hurried tryst.
A romantically challenged woman accepts a date. A man walks into a bar and tells a woman a heart-breaking tale of tragedy. A mother joins her dying son in his hospital room. As we learn over the pleasurable course of filmmaker Willard Carroll s story, all of them are connected to the others. The movie waits until near the end to show its full hand, but drops plenty of hints along the way for puzzle-solvers to contemplate.