Based on Michael Ignatieff?s Booker Prize
Nominated Novel
Daniel?s mother Mora, a once gifted visual artist
who inexplicably gave up painting years before, is
diagnosed with Alzheimer?s. Stalled in his own
filmmaking career, at the age his mother gave up
painting, Daniel searches for answers in his
family?s past.
A family gathers around the farmhouse kitchen
table, sharing stories and laughs over dinner.
Sitting at the table, Mora recalls a family
holiday in Antigonish. Her husband groans. Not
that story again. The conversation shifts as Alex
and their two grown sons, Nick and Daniel, share a
joke. Suddenly, Mora begins retelling exactly the
same story about Antigonish, apparently unaware
she had already done so. Her husband and sons
exchange glances, their faces betraying grave
concern.
Although she is unaware of it, Mora has
Alzheimer?s disease, the brain disorder that
causes early senility and memory loss. Once a
brilliant visual artist, a painter who captured
vivid images of life with her brush, she
inexplicably gave it up. Since then, she has
drifted though her days, a shadow of her former
self. Later that night, Mora overhears her husband
and sons discussing a plan to send her for tests.
Nick, prominent neurologist, assures his father
and brother that he?ll take care of everything.
The agonizing strain of a mother afflicted with
Alzheimer?s weighs heavily on the entire family as
they struggle with fear, frustration and loss. As
Mora?s condition rapidly deteriorates, Daniel
questions whether the disease has been passed on
to him, and in turn, to his own son. Did his
mother?s fear of Alzheimer?s cause her to abandon
her art 20 years earlier Has that same fear taken
hold of Daniel, causing him to stop making films?
Daniel is desperate to find the answers. But he
must race against the clock, as he feels his
mother slipping through his fingers.
| Languages: | English |
| Runtime: | 86 min. |
| Number of discs: | 1 |
