“You know, I feel as if I’ve known this place since I was born. A home. I say that this is a place of life. Everything here is alive. Even death is alive...”The hospice is the last stop. People are admitted to the hospice once they accept the idea that conventional medical treatment can no longer help them and they want to ease their suffering and improve the quality of their lives in their last hours. The average stay for a patient at the hospice is 14.6 days. The film follows six cases, six families, and six processes of letting go of life. Saying goodbye to a loved one; a woman realizing that she has lived a loveless life; a man tormented by enormous guilt feelings his entire life; a son who cannot find a way to let go of his father… Death as a way of saying goodbye, a summary, an essence, and most of all, death for those who are left behind. “…The thing that bothers me most is… Sometimes he lets me understand that he knows that he's dying and other times, he lets you feel as if everything will be fine and in 2 months time we’ll go off skiing… It frustrates me, because it doesn’t give me a chance to tell him things that…-That you’d like to tell him. -Yes. Look, you can’t ignore the fact that my sister and I, we never had an intimate dialogue with our father, o.k.? -Do you feel this would make things easier for him? -I don’t know… Maybe it’s for me, after all.”
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