Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, shes a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her lifeand her relationship with her family and the worldforever. As she struggles to cope with Alzheimers, she learns that her worth is comprised of far more than her ability to remember.