When an elderly widow, newly arrived in a retirement facility, encounters her long forsaken true love, she must confront head-on the complications of his early onset dementia to win back his heart. 

SYNOPSIS:

It’s a funny thing, dementia – some things are hard to remember, others too painful to forget. When seventy-something widow Cynthia Baker transitions to the sprawling Happy Valley Retreat for Positive Aging in Miami, she encounters a ghost from somewhere back in her long-ago – Denzel Mosé, her treasured rare black pearl. It’s not good karma, for way back then, in the less tolerant era of the 1970s, a heart was surely broken. Now, Cynthia wants it all mended.

As Cynthia tries to ease back into Denzel’s life, her former lover remains aloof, his behavior sometimes erratic.Seeking comfort from daughter Hermione – and a wine or two – she reveals her aborted romance with Denzel in the 1970s, and her eventual marriage of convenience to another whom she didn’t love. Damn it! She resolves to win Denzel back.

Biting the bullet, she declares her undying love for him, regardless of his shortcomings. Denzel’s own true feelings for her are soon re-kindled, and, convinced there’s no harm resurrecting some of their youthful rebellious times, the seniors consummate their renewed accord. But as his behavior becomes more erratic, and at times seemingly spiteful, question marks are raised - is it a case of "crossed-wires"? Or perhaps more a case of “wires no longer connected”?

Hoping to allay her concerns about his mental disposition, Cynthia approaches Happy Valley’s resident physician, Doc Martini, and presents Denzel's symptoms as her own. The Doc concedes the symptoms she describes indicate dementia. But the Doc is no fool; these are not her symptoms, but those of another. When he declares that only Denzel’s immediate family can be privy to his medical information, there is only one course of action for Cynthia. Revisiting the site where, in 1972, under pressure from her prejudiced parents, she rebuffed Denzel’s marriage proposal, Cynthia now proposes to him! With his broken heart now assuaged, he accepts.

And while the wedding goes as well as could be expected, with the newlyweds set to embark on a honeymoon cruise, a big-time relapse sees Denzel losing it completely ... and the vessel sails without them.

This is their Kismet, Cynthia and Denzel seeing their days out together, sailing upon ever placid waters, until death they do part, in the Happy Valley Retreat for Positive Aging.

POSITIVE AGING IN HAPPY VALLEY