The kindest
of lies
Gerald is a middle-aged accountant who lives with his mother in his childhood home. Annie has dementia, and he is her main carer. His attempts to live a normal life are hampered by her insistence that his sister — who died as a teenager of a muscle-wasting disease — is still alive.
Realising his mother has only a short memory, he placates her fears by inventing a life for his sister that would make her proud. The anecdotes he relays grow progressively more bizarre, until he must invent the ultimate lie to explain her death.
A life of hope, heroism and essentially human.
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