In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker&♯39;s life: he&♯39;s an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he&♯39;s in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he&♯39;s a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children&♯39;s choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother&♯39;s cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..
