Twenty minutes that'll wreck your heart and make you call your mom immediately.
About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.
Acting
Rita Tushingham's devastating fragility, Paul Barber's exhausted devotion.
Editing
Seamless past-present transitions that mirror dementia's cruel time slips.
Director
Stacha Hicks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Short films about dementia have exploded post-2015, reflecting aging populations and COVID's isolation legacy. This joins a vital, painful canon.
Stacha Hicks directed this after her own mother's dementia diagnosis—those small authentic details (the repetitive phrases, the sudden clarity) come from lived experience.
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