Ethyl, the former neighbor of an elderly woman named May, decides to spend the day with May. She picks May up from the nursing house against the orders of May’s daughter, Susan, who has moved into her mother’s home, auctioned off her favorite Renoir painting, and allowed her dogs to trample her mother’s once pristine garden. Susan thinks that May is too much to handle and doesn’t heed her suggestions.  Ethyl brings May to the Country Club. Ethyl knows that May suffered from alcoholism after her husband Richard’s deadly heart attack, so she orders just one glass of wine for herself in the hopes that May will take it slow. But no, May ends up drinking several martinis and the lunch ends in tears. Ethyl drives a sleeping May home. Back at the nursing home, May tells Ethyl that she supposes she won’t be visited again; Ethyl reassures her old friend that she’ll be back. At home, Ethyl looks over to May’s old house and sees the ruined garden, which now looks like more of a Rousseau painting than a Renoir.