Find Me Falling

After his latest album is poorly received, American rock star John Allman (Harry Connick Jr.) spontaneously decides to take a break, buying a remote house near a cliff in Cyprus. A few days later, he yells at a man standing in front of his house at the edge of the cliff, believing him to be a trespassing paparazzo; he is shocked when the man jumps to his death. Local police captain Manoli (Tony Demetriou) comes to the scene and explains that the cliff is a well-known suicide hot-spot, leading John to realize why the house was so cheap to buy. John is warned that the suicide rate can be very high, reaching several a month, and is given Manoli's phone number to report future instances. Manoli says that the spot has become a local legend and people even come from abroad to jump from there. John goes into town for food and asks for a home delivery, surprising the shop owner when he tells her which house he lives in. The shop owner was trying to tell John what ingredients he needs to make a good pasta sauce, when he tries to buy a tin of the ready-made stuff. John doesn't even have a list and asks the woman to select what he needs and to send it to his place. The next day, Melina (Ali Fumiko Whitney) delivers John's food. Melina is a singer who works at a local restaurant. She finds John outside the house, passed out from being drunk and trying to build a fence around the edge of the cliff, to prevent people from jumping off. She recognizes him upon entering the house and seeing his things, and he explains that he has moved to Cyprus to escape his life. Melina sees that John is alone and offers to hook him up with local, eligible women, who are his age. He later calls his manager Jimmy (Clarence Smith) to reveal where he is and put his mind to rest as John disappeared with no explanation. When the mother of the man who jumped comes to the cliff, John calls Manoli. The woman is helped, and Manoli invites him to meet at the tavern in town, where they hear Melina sing. John is then introduced to a table of locals, including Sia (Agni Scott), a woman he'd met in Cyprus many years ago. Sia is a doctor on the Island. The others recognize him as the rock star and mention his most famous song, which is about falling in love on the beach. Although the song was about Sia, he insists it was not inspired by a real person and leaves. Sia follows John out and he confronts her about pretending not to know him. She asks him why he's back in Cyprus, but he doesn't know how to answer, and they suddenly share a passionate kiss. Sia spends the night at John's house, sneaking to town in the morning. Sia's full name is Athanasia, but John calls her "Euthanasia" in jest. Sia later goes to church where her sister Koula (Lea Maleni), the shop owner, soon discovers she has just come from John's. John later convinces Sia to come to dinner in the evening. Sia's colleagues discuss that John dated Cameron Diaz, Tyra Banks and a host of other models through his singing career. Melina delivers Aftersun (John got a sun burn when he went swimming, and Melina got him some sun cream) to his house and he convinces her to cook dinner. John confides in Melina that he wrote his famous song "Girl on the beach", after he met the love of his life in Cyprus. He says that the woman was different as she loved him for who he was, before all the fame and the stardom. Sia arrives early and finds John dressing. When her daughter comes out from the kitchen (Melina turns out to be Sia's daughter), then Manoli's sister arrives unexpectedly, Sia believes he's cheating on her with two women and storms out. It is revealed that John and Sia wanted to be together, but she was scared off by his groupies when she followed him to New York City to tell him about her pregnancy. She instead tells Melina that her father was a passing tourist when it was in fact John, who did not know. Melina asks her grandmother who her father is, but she does not say. At the tavern that night, Melina invites John to sing his song with her. Halfway through, he improvises and says Sia had raised her without telling either of them the truth. This is the first time Melina finds out that she is John's daughter. The upset Melina lashes out at Sia for keeping the secret, but her grandmother forces Sia and Melina to sit down and talk. Sia says that she felt that rock star John would have never made a good father for Melina. John shares a new song he has written with Jimmy, who insists he can mount a comeback with it. He sees a woman named Anna (Athina Roditou) near the cliff edge, convinces her not to jump, and discovers she is pregnant. He allows her to stay on his sofa that night. In the morning, he takes Anna to tell her parents about the pregnancy, revealing that Manoli is her father. He becomes so upset that his wife tells him to leave until he calms down. Manoli and John stay all day at John's house building the fence (now Manoli is motivated to build the fence as his own family was impacted), until Anna goes into labor. At the hospital, upon seeing John with flowers and a balloon, Sia erroneously believes they are for her. Once she finishes telling him off, he explains they are for the new baby and that his departure from Cyprus is imminent. Melina coaches John on the lyrics of a popular serenade that he and many locals sing to Sia. Although she is moved, Sia cannot open the door to him. John gives the new song he wrote to Melina, which she shows to Sia, who promptly finds him and forgives him. Sometime later, Melina successfully launches her musical career with Jimmy as her manager, while John is happily living with Sia in his cliff-side home and spending time with the locals he has befriended.