A able surgeon's, played by Patrick Wilson, activity aback changes aback his ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle) dies and goes assimilate advise him about activity from the above the grave.
"A Able Man" is a ball about a brilliant, absorbing surgeon whose activity changes consistently aback his asleep ex-wife begins teaching him the acceptation of activity from the "hereafter". Michael Holt (Patrick Wilson) is an aberrant doctor who lives a acquisitive activity of affluence acknowledgment to his work-obsessed career and able and affluent patients; however, Michael's ordered apple is rocked aback his ex-wife, Anna (Jennifer Ehle), an abstracted free-clinic doctor and the adulation of his life, mysteriously appears to him. Michael's camp sister, Christina (Julie Benz), a distinct mom to her teenaged son, Milo (Liam Aiken), is captivated that Anna's aback in her brother's life, alike as an "illusion", because Michael was consistently a bigger being with her. Curious about Michael's abrupt change in behavior is his able assistant, Rita (Margo Martindale). Aback Anna asks Michael to go to her dispensary to advice accumulate it running, he meets Autumn (Afton Williamson), a advance accustomed on Anna's assignment with the underprivileged. Touched by those in charge and accepting of Anna's compassionate "presence", Michael's attitude against confined the affluent and poor is angry upside down, and he begins to see that there's allowance in his activity for everyone.
