Plot Summary

When Marc was a teenager, he told his father he was gay. His father couldn’t accept it, and threw him out of the house. He didn’t come back for years. Now he’s returned, and it isn’t really about obligation. It’s more that time is running out to make sense of everything that happened between them. But his father has Alzheimer’s, and the disease has taken him somewhere Marc can’t follow. His father doesn’t know his own son anymore. Instead, he looks at Marc and sees his other son, a version frozen in an earlier, easier time, someone who never let him down or grew older in ways he couldn’t keep up with. Marc could correct him. He doesn’t. He lets his father believe what he believes, and lives inside that lie for a while, because it’s the closest thing to being seen and accepted that his father has ever offered him.