Riverbank: A Tragic-comedy Or The Upside Of Memory Loss

Charlie and Kate Kraus are living a relatively normal life when Jenny, Charlie’s ninety-year-old mother, suffering from senile dementia, comes to live with their family—none of whom she actually remembers. Although she knows no one in her new home, Jenny is about to play a major role in the lives of everyone she meets. Kate is more cosmopolitan than her chemistry professor husband Charlie, but has been perfectly content to stay home to raise their five children. She drinks Scotch out of a s...