The Quality of Life is a short documentary piece detailing the struggles of a mother and father and their premature son. Matt McCarron, the son of Joan Piltch and Tom McCarron is born three months premature at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. Matt's story as told by Matt, Joan, Tom and grandmothers Claire McCarron and Francis Piltch, begins with the scare of nearly loosing their child to a premature birth and follows with the heartbreak of Matt's cystic fibrosis diagnosis. The film details the life of the family during these tough times and they how copped with the possibility of loosing their child.