Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few "events," though he
knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died,
and his remaining two children want to move him out of the homestead
lake house and into a retirement home in town. What Tom wants to do is
to find the only woman he ever loved, a woman he met in the Netherlands
where he was stationed during World War II.
And so he slips away, deftly covers his tracks, and begins his search
for her in Eindhoven. While his children try to track him down and then
have him extradited back home, Tom delves into love and loss and the
value of memory. Soon he catches sight of a woman he believes to be
Sarah, the love he lost almost a lifetime ago.
He will have to fight for her affections and forgiveness, even as he
fights for the legal right to stay in the Netherlands in the name of
love and family and all the remaining rights of an old man.