Life is only lived in full when you embrace love and despair together. This is Annie's life. She lives with her mother and has a dream to become an artist - like her father. Annie's mother doesn't want that, perhaps due to a failed relationship with her husband. Annie pushes on and leaves her mother to become an artist. Her mother cannot bear this loss. Over many years of separation, her body withers away. When Annie returns, she finds her mother paralysed. She tries to revive her through one last performance and is able to confide her feelings to her at last. But perhaps it's too late.