Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).
Cicely Tyson
as Jordan Roosevelt
Piper Laurie
as Wanda Kirkman
Tess Harper
as Julia Archer
James McDaniel
as Marcus Roosevelt Sr.
Starletta DuPois
as Sally
Salle Ellis
as Gayle
Penny Johnson Jerald
as Laney Roosevelt
Brandon Hammond
as Marcus Roosevelt Jr.
Stephen Root
as Ed Kirkman
Clarence Williams III
as Christopher, the Caretaker
Dennis Letts
as Roland Tate
Patti Yasutake
as Nurse Dickerson
