The film builds to its powerful climax
on the strength of Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau's extraordinary pairing as Auschwitz survivors who meet in a nursing home and plan the murder of a former guard from Auschwitz with two deadlines: One due to the diminishing number of Nazi officers and perpetrators remaining alive, and other because of the
dementia that has made Plummer's Zev Guttman constantly battle the growing fog and uncertainty that are slowly destroying his mental competence as Landau's Max guides him
on an improbable
journey.
Her mother - in - law Nancy was in the middle stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and Keeper charts her
journey into
dementia, its impact
on her personality and her family, and the author's researches into what
dementia is.