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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.

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.

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.

A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.

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.

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.

When an old woman sees her son straining to leave to see the world, she remembers her husband doing the same many years earlier. In a fierce battle pitting love against discovery and adventure, she does her utmost to set him free.

An elderly woman prepares for her death, but is anxious for someone to listen to her precious memories and cherish them after her death.

In the late 20th century, an aging couple's daughter returns to live with her parents in an attempt to flee her failing marriage. While the mother easily slips back into her maternal role, the arthritic father struggles to empathize with his youngest child, and, in his increasing frustration, commits an unforgivable act that isolates him from his family.

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