Based on the novel by Anita Shreve (THE WEIGHT OF WATER), THE PILOT'S WIFE tells the story of Kathryn Lions (Christine Lahti), a woman with a seemingly perfect life who becomes ensnared in a web or terror when a 747 piloted by her husband (John Heard) explodes in mid-flight. When the flight's black box is recovered, it appears to reveal that her husband was fully responsible for the catastrophe--and that it may have been a terrorist act.