Slowly and All at Once

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No matter how old we get we're always coming of age.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nina and her mother Lillian navigate a bumpy road as two elders-a daughter starting her sixth decade a mother starting her ninth-a path complicated by Lillian's deteriorating cognition.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After Nina retires to care for her father Cal in his final year she struggles with the often tense and impersonal relationship she has with her mother Lillian a social activist who has always put the cause above all else-even her own daughters.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic Nina and Lillian must navigate grief isolation and their strained mother-daughter relationship as Nina steps into Lillian's life more each day to help keep her safe from herself often to Lillian's disapproval.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With Lillian's dementia increasingly evident Nina protectively conceals her mother's condition from her activist friends unaware of the potential consequences.</span></p>