Outline of my Film

The film begins with a voice over, with short snapshots of video. The images and sounds are a reflection of the main character, Grace’s, life. The film then moves to the present, with Grace, now an older woman (80 – 85) being cared for by a nurse, and talking to the nurse about her own past. Grace obviously doesn’t get on with the nurse, having just lost her husband; she still wishes to be self-sufficient. After an argument with the Nurse when she leaves the house without her say-so and Grace fires her. Her daughter, Sophie, begins to become infuriated and threatens to put her mother in a nursing home, angering her mother. Sophie gives her a last chance, with recently qualified nurse, Diana. Unlike the previous carer, Diana listens to her, and allows her to continue living as she wished. Grace begins to retrace her life to Diana, changing her life for the better, increasing her confidence and expectations in life. Sophie begins to go through marital problems with her husband, Charles, a banker. Sophie reattempts to convince her mother to move into a nursing home, because of financial problems with her husband, arguing with Diana over the matter. Grace is then diagnosed with early on-set Parkinson’s disease. Her son, Richard, returns from America to help care for her, and quickly falls out with his sister over the care of their mother. Sophie’s marriage continues to fall apart, and Charles tries to seduce Diana, who tells Sophie. Sophie them argues with her, reducing Diana to tears, who then quits as her mothers nurse, after Charles blackmails her. Richard then finds her, in a small, slightly run-down flat, and attempts to convince to her to return, as her mother misses her. On their way back to Grace’s house, Richard and Diana share a romantic moment, and then fall in love.


As Diana had been gone several weeks, the state of the family and Charles has begun to steal from Grace. Diana and Richard find him stealing from Grace’s room, whilst she is out. Charles threatens them, but Grace and Sophie return from shopping to find him with Grace’s retirement money. Sophie then files for a divorce, winning a large amount of money. Diana and Richard then become engaged and marry. Grace’s condition worsens, and on their wedding days evening returns to her room, and does not wake up.

The film ends with a voice over by Grace, reflecting about the importance of life, which she wrote in a journal, leaving in to Diana. When her house is searched it was found that she was living surrounded by exceptionally valuable paintings, which are later sold, and shared amongst the family.