Begins with shots of birthday cake. Old man’s voiceover. “I always like to put the candles on this way, exactly spaced like this.”
Boils tea. “I long again discovered that the best kind of tea takes 6 minutes to boil…at least on this stove.”
Series of shots of setting up a birthday for his wife, leading up to grand reveal that he does the birthday celebration every day for his wife.
Idea is that she has Alzheimer’s and doesn’t know what day it is. So everyday he redoes her 22nd birthday celebration.
“I guess I just decided that if I couldn’t beat the disease I (we) could just roll with it.”
“It’s actually found a way for us to relive our favourite time again and again.”