A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore & Kristen Stewart Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build At fifty she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard & a renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband & three grown children When she begins to grow forgetful & disoriented she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life
- & her relationship with her family & the world around her
- for ever Unable to care for herself Alice struggles to find meaning & purpose as her concept of self gradually slips away But Alice is a remarkable woman & her family learn more about her & each other in their quest to hold on to the Alice they know Her memory hanging by a frayed thread she is living in the moment living for each day But she is still Alice