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After being put in a nursing home by her daughter, an elderly woman feels her family slipping away from her until it is too late for reconciliation.

In modern-day Philadelphia, an old, Korean married couple navigates the aging husband's Alzheimer's as best as they can. When the wife's secret that she also has a chronic disease comes out, her husband must fight to remember how to take care of their family.

One Mother's Day, two old women reflect on their relationships with their children--present and absent--and with the same adulterous man. When their paths cross at a crucial moment, one woman's refusal to accept the help of her husband's secret lover leads to her death.

As a woman prods her ill-tempered mother to move into a nursing home, a strange encounter prompts her to reflect on their lifelong, often rocky relationship.

An elderly woman in a senior living community spends most of her time alone. As she waits for her daughters to visit, she quells her loneliness by having dinner with her neighbor.

When her husband's heart condition lands him in the hospital, an elderly woman living in Florida reevaluates the formative events of her life.

A Jewish woman cares for her husband, a retired shirt manufacturer, who has Alzheimer's Disease. She convinces his ex-business partner to talk shop with him over the phone. As her husband's health worsens, his wife and his old friend remember his centrality in their lives.

When a friendly resident at a retirement home starts to decline in health and popularity, a woman reflects on what it means to grow old when there’s no one to look out for you.

Two elderly women in rural Georgia attempt to help a man with amnesia who happens upon their farm, and in the process accidentally become accomplices to a crime.

An elderly man fills out an exit questionnaire as he leaves his retirement community, intending to admonish the community's doctor. He ends up revealing the details of his final months with his wife and describes how they used to dance together, cherishing their love.