Septuagenarian Lenny waits in an interview room inside an intimidating police station. A psychiatrist, Lola, enters, gently introducing herself to Lenny, who’s anxious and agitated about seeing her son Mick since she’s overdue taking her Alzheimer’s medication.
Lola calmly explains that Mick has been arrested for coercively controlling her: she does not in fact have Alzheimer’s and is no longer subject to his perniciously abusive authority. She’s free to go home.
With her sense of reality shattered, Lenny does not even know how to begin to reclaim her life. She gets no further than a bench outside the police station, which is where Lola finds her at the end of her shift.
Unable to abandon Lenny, Lola offers to take Lenny home. Lenny leads the way, drawn to places that reveal just how far her reality has diverged from that of the outside world under the cruel control of her own son.
Their quietly epic journey helps Lenny to begin the slow process of reclaiming her identity and Lola to reckon with the decisions and rationales that have shaped her life – an unexpected connection that might just be what each of them needed as they embark on their next chapters…