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Knowing that his wife only has a year left to live, an elderly man puts aside the bitterness in their marriage to make her as happy and comfortable as possible.
An elderly woman spends twenty years of her life in paranoia and depression after the death of her husband, only to gain sudden, supreme clarity after a small incident at the end of her life.
A retired, middle-aged man lives alone after leaving his wife and daughters in England and moving to Vancouver. Amid the growing certainty of death and the absence of any strong relationships, he realizes he must break out of the vacuum within which he lives.
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.
An elderly woman prepares for her death, but is anxious for someone to listen to her precious memories and cherish them after her death.
A retired couple live a comfortable life in the suburbs of Maryland, but they cannot escape thoughts of death and mourning, even as the husband and wife attend an extravagant toga-themed house warming party in their neighborhood.
Set in 1914 Detroit, a young man with a life threatening condition is forced to live a mundane life protected from the outside world. When a new friend begins showing him the joys life has to offer, he is forced to decide how he wants to live.
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.
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.
When her husband's heart condition lands him in the hospital, an elderly woman living in Florida reevaluates the formative events of her life.