There is more than one ending...
An elderly Mother.
Her two adult daughters and their husbands.
The wheel of life turns.
But in this somber non-linear film, the wheel turns first to her accidental death early in old age, and then to living a long life but lost in dementia at the end. The fraught relationship between the sisters with very different lives, suffers under the pressure.
Both roads are difficult journeys, especially for the family members who must become caregivers. Endings portrays how this might start and the emotional repercussions of guilt and care.
As a son, grandson, brother and father, I’ve naturally been aware of the wheel of life turning through a family. Endings grew out of my experience during the last years of my Mother’s life, when she was suffering from serious dementia. In order to make Endings, however, I had to find a way to show that and to transcend it, if only a little bit further on the turning of that wheel of life.
