- Set in rural Nova Scotia, a young boy is witness to his father's attempts to keep his failing grandmother alive, while the boy's mother struggles to provide for her only the best quality of life during the woman's last days. Isolated from his family and more conscious of his world than he is credited for, the boy's growing alienation from the innocence of his youth reveals his grim understanding of life and death on the cold Canadian coast.
- Set in rural Nova Scotia, a young boy is witness to his parents attempts to care for his dying grandmother. While the boy's father tries to keep his failing mother alive, the boy's own mother struggles to provide for her only the best quality of life. While the adults argue on the best course of action the boy quietly observes the throes of his grandmother's last days. Left largely to care for himself the boy sets about exploring his grandmother's room, taking in the sounds and sights of the machine that keeps her alive and the personal effects that have been placed there to comfort her during her transition. While playing with his friends on the beach one day the boy comes upon a dying gull. The question of caring for this animal or ending its misery looms large in the boy's mind. Isolated from his family, and more conscious of his world than he is credited for, the camera begins to capture the boy's alienation from the innocence of youth and reveals his (perhaps grim) understanding of life and death on the cold Canadian coast.
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