SHADOWLANDS. THE FILM.

The plot run in a college in Oxford University in 1952. Jack, the main character, is a proffesor and a writer, with a quiet and peaceful and relatevily happy life without any problems at all. From time to time, he explain the same lecture in differents places in the city of London, mainly focus to catholic people as, an Association of Christian Teachers, for example. The lecture try to teach, that God gives us the gift of suffering because He loves us and wants us to grow up, so, sometimes accidents and other terrible things happen without any answer to the question, where is God in this precise moment?, the answer Jack tells us is that God gives us the pain because the world is deaf, in his words " Pain is the God´s megaphone to arose a deaf world", so, like the hurt produced by the chisel of a sculptor in the block of stone, God forms the men and make them perfect.
After receiving a letter from an american woman and poem writer, he accept to be the host of her and her son Douglas. As she is in trouble, plaining a divorce from an alcoholic husband, Jack gets in charge of giving a solution to her situation and say yes to marry her, first in a technical way and secondly in a catholic way after having fall in love with her. Soon after, she is in pain with a cancer and before passing away they both have an idylic bit of time.
Jack´s life has changed completely and turn into a mess. Confussion, fuzzyness and anger are with him at any moment, once, when talking to his fellows, he says: "We are the rats in the cosmic laboratory".
At the end he really understand, by himself, the difference between the theory he has been talking in his lectures and the experience of losing a person who you love. Experience is a teacher he says.
When he is able to head his life with Douglas, he assume that pain is part of the happines. "That´s the deal", as she once said to him.