Writer-director Harry Macqueen’s script is as
spare and natural as the setting — England’s
Lake District, with its ancient stone walls and
rolling misty green countryside. Dementia is
never mentioned and referred to only obliquely,
as in “the bloody thing.”
The film opens with the couple in a motorhome
revisiting places and people they enjoyed
over the years. Tusker, an American novelist, is
ostensibly finishing his latest book and the trip
will end with Sam, a very English pianist, giving
a concert.