Summary
A Wall Street titan, adrift in a sea of financial ledgers and existential fatigue, stumbles upon a fleeting tableau of childhood innocence—a group of children tossing a ball near a grand hotel. This ephemeral moment becomes a catalyst for a visceral pilgrimage to his rural birthplace, where the gnarled orchard trees and sun-drenched memories of his youth claw their way to the surface. Through a series of elegiac vignettes—afternoon baseball, the sacred pilgrimage to a forgotten swimming hole, and the bittersweet reunion with a long-lost love—the film weaves a tapestry of nostalgia that is as much about the decay of time as it is about its redemptive power. Director E.S. Harrison and May Tully’s script, with its lyrical cadence and unflinching emotional transparency, transforms a man’s journey into a universal meditation on the cost of ambition and the fragile beauty of memory. The interplay between Paul Kelly’s tormented financier and Mary Beth Barnelle’s enigmatic sweetheart is a masterclass in understated chemistry, while Bobby Connelly’s cinematography bathes the narrative in a golden haze that feels both timeless and heartbreakingly finite.
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A Wall Street financier oppressed with care and worry, sees some children playing near a great hotel and becomes desirous of reliving the scenes of his childhood. He hurries to his car, is driven to the old country homestead where he was born, and takes a walk through the orchard. A bite of fruit brings back memories of his younger days, afternoon ball games, the daily hike to the old swimming hole, and the days of his youth through the stages of maturity until he leaves for the city to make his fortune. He joins in a baseball game with some youngsters, and he notices an attractive middle-aged woman on the road whom he recognizes as his boyhood sweetheart. They exchange greetings and happily walk down the rustic lane.
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