What They Had (15)

Bert Keller wakes to find the other side of the martial bed empty. His beloved wife Ruth, who has stage six Alzheimer’s, has wandered into a snow storm wearing just a flimsy nightdress and housecoat. Bert telephones his son Nick, who in turn calls his sister Bridget, and she hurriedly flies into sub-zero Chicago from California with her petulant daughter Emma in tow. Thankfully, Ruth is unharmed but the unsettling episode is the last straw for Nick.