A tragedy forces Edie and Kate to make amends. Kate gets her diagnosis and something happens that leads Edie to feel there really are moments worth living for.
Australian doctor Kate Brennan, a senior registrar specialising in palliative care medicine, is passionate in her opposition to euthanasia. Her mother, Edie Henley who lives in England, is just as passionate about her right to die. Kate must bring Edie out to Australia but places her in a nearby retirement village, which is her mother's worst nightmare. Kate struggles with her own problems and children, while trying to find a way back to a relationship with her mother.