Judith Birch, a music teacher stricken with Alzheimer’s disease, wants to end her life; Dr. Peter Katseus, a former pathologist, has invented a device for helping the terminally ill “die with dignity” that has him shunned by the entire medical establishment. Aided by her reluctantly devoted husband, Douglas, the couple seeks out Katseus, hoping he will agree to help her. But Judith’s indefatigable determination, along with her belief in Katseus and his mission, stir unanticipated feelings in the emotionally comatose doctor. Katseus rediscovers his own heart just in time to have it broken, as the cause that brought him and Judith together must ultimately divide them. A 21st Century Pygmalion, only instead of teaching her to speak, this Professor Higgins must help his subject die. The result is a drama of equal parts humor, irony, and pathos.