This article needs an improved plot summary. (October 2015)The film spans several decades in the unconventional life of feisty nonagenarian Hagar Shipley, who sets off on a journey to reconcile herself with her past when she discovers her son Marvin and daughter-in-law Doris are moving her into a nursing home. In a crumbling house she had lived in when she was first married, Hagar recalls her estrangement from her father, a wealthy Manitoba shopkeeper who disowned her when she married farmer Bram Shipley. Despite her defiance, she considered herself superior to her husband, and treated him callously as their relationship disintegrated and he became an alcoholic. Her younger son John, her favorite, eventually broke her heart by becoming involved with Arlene, a wild girl of whom she disapproved.Now in hiding, Hagar meets Leo, who enables her to confront the one secret she feels she must take to her grave, namely the role she played in John's death. No longer able to repress her emotions, she realizes the bad decisions and misjudgments she made throughout her life were a result of her resolute stubbornness, and eventually she is able to find closure with Marvin.
Question: Who has haunted memories of her life?, Answer: Hagar Question: Who goes on the run?, Answer: Hagar Question: Who is living an unconventional life?, Answer: Hagar Shipley Question: What is Hagar Shipley desperate to find?, Answer: closure Question: What is Hagar Shipley forced to do?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What does Hagar Shipley decide to do?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: Who is forced to come to terms with the pain and pleasure?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: Who is faced with her own mortality, and desperate?, Answer: Hagar Question: Whose best selling novel is the movie based on?, Answer: <No Answer>