改编自英国作家艾克利的小说，讲述自己晚年与新收牧羊犬苦乐交缠的生活。狗狗时而神经质，时而狗性流露，人狗之间，有点像情人，又有点像父女，细致温馨。Roger Ebert再次为这部电影亮出了满分。
A rookie drag queen, reeling from a break-up, escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother in steep decline yet desperate to avoid the local nursing home.
