A 66-year-old grandmother on welfare diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's. She cares for a stroke patient and her misbehaving grandson, enrolls in a poetry class to find beauty amid tragedy, and becomes deeply entangled in the cover-up of a girl's rape and suicide. She struggles to secure the settlement money, witnesses her grandson's arrest, and leaves behind a poem written from the victim's perspective. Her ultimate fate remains ambiguous.
Shared participants in the community poetry course.
Biological grandmother responsible for raising her grandson.
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