"If you care about something you have to protect it. If you`re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend`s mother. Owen doesn`t believe in accidents; he believes he is God`s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.