At fifty-seven George is settling down to a comfortable retirement. Then Katie his tempestuous daughter announces that she is getting remarried to Ray. Her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the arguing the wedding has occasioned which gets in the way of her late-life affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. & the tidy life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover Tony to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed in the uproar George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip & quietly begins to lose his mind. This is a deeply moving portrait of a family who fall apart
- & come together.