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"This movie is really long and quite epic (and fantastic), so I
may not have captured everything, but here goes . . .  The film
opens up with a tight close up of a very old woman on her
deathbed in the hospital. There’s a terrible storm raging
outside the window. Clearly in pain, the old woman is struggling
to speak and her daughter (Julia Ormond) is at her bedside. We
can tell the mother is at the end of her life because when she
cries out in pain and her daughter fetches the nurse, the nurse
tells her that she can have as much pain medication as she
wants. The daughter has come to say goodbye to her mother, but
their relationship seems strained. The woman asks in a feeble
voice for her daughter to bring her a diary from her belongings
and to read it to her. The diary looks like a journal with
tickets and photographs glued to the pages. The daughter begins
reading from the diary and it t