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When a mother's memory begins to deteriorate, her daughter catalogs her memories, both the ones she does and doesn't remember.

When his wife accuses him of something he can't remember, a man must confront the memories that still linger in his mind.

A man recalls his intimate friendship with his former English professor, who resolved to fuel his unsatisfied desire for playwriting during the time they were apart. In their reunion decades later, instead of the brilliant play he promised, the professor shows his former student a disturbing product of his mental instability.

On the brink of death, an elderly man recounts his life to his great grandson, revealing that his mother's schizophrenic delusions of an otherworldly fantasy land were no delusions at all.

A man reflects on the past week while an unexpected storm rages outside, and he compares the events that follow with the fall of the Roman Empire.

After losing her mother to early-onset Alzheimers, a lonely, grieving girl in Canada joins a test group for an experimental Alzheimers drug. When the drug induces intense, vivid flashbacks to her childhood, she meets a girl within her memories who becomes her advocate and friend.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

A research psychologist visits a peculiar asylum patient who recounts his life story. The patient warns the researcher about how obsession with the pursuit of knowledge can make one lose sight of their humanity until it is unsalvageable.

A man from New York recalls his most poignant memories, realizing they were all moments when others had needed something from him and he had let them down.

A Polish immigrant feels her mind slipping away, as her surroundings and even her own body seem unfamiliar. After she's diagnosed with Alzheimers, she reflects on the importance of her memories and her past.