The premise is that there is a company that creates an organic recording device that is inserted into a fetus in the womb. It records all sights and sounds from birth to death. Upon death, "cutters", which are essentially film editors, review the entire life video (fortunately sorted out into various categories for easy access) by a computer known as a "guillotine". The cutter's job is to take the life history, reduce it to 1-2 hours of highlights and special moments, and present it for a memorial service called a "rememory".<br /><br />As you can imagine, the cutters see a lot of good things and a lot of unpleasant things.<br /><br />In this movie, Robin Williams, in a non-comedic role, is a cutter and he sees something in one person's life file which has special importance to him and the rest of the plot revolves around this event. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>