In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker__APOS__s life: he__APOS__s an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he__APOS__s in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he__APOS__s a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children__APOS__s choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother__APOS__s cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..