Saturday, November 13: 8:00 pm People Center

From time to time, the filmmaker visits her grandmother who has been caring for her developmentally disabled son, Ronnie, the filmmaker's uncle, for all of his 62 years. Rising every morning at 6 am, Ronnie wakes Eleanore, always still fast asleep. Bathed in the light of dawn that envelopes their Pennsylvania farmhouse, Ronnie sits alone at his desk stacking cut paper in neat rows, waiting for his mother to come downstairs and breakfast to be served. Wilmouth portrays their daily life from a familiar reserve, showing us the quiet amenable ways in which the pair have adapted to each other. The routine is broken when Eleanore, more than 90 years old herself, must have knee surgery that will require weeks of recovery and rehabilitation. Who will look after Ronnie? While making arrangements for her son's temporary care, Eleanore confronts the hard reality that she will not always be there for him and, more startling, that he may be more self-sufficient than she thinks.