"The sound of sirens muzzled, and the scent in the air was similar to a doctor's office. Irene was getting a headache from the bumpy roads. The crunchy blue pillows were no big help to that either. She wanted to speak, but something was disabling her to do so. Irene turned her fragile head to her side, now looking at a man.". Irene is a little old lady who has no one but her son left in her life. She thinks he is on her side, but what he ended up doing was unforgivable. Irene lives in her worst nightmare. There are non stop panic attacks and dementia every day. She needs to get out of that mad house. Will she know what to do, or will something stop her?

Dorothy Smit considers herself a senior resident being that she has lived inside the crumbling walls of Atman Lodge nursing home for so long she can't remember. Estranged from any family her aloneness colours the monotony of her every day grey, beige and lonely. Until the day Peggy arrives. Their unexpected and sudden friendship alights the dim and dingy home for the elderly until a friend and co- resident is found murdered across the hall. Atman Lodge, a novel inspired by real life Canadian news articles highlights the beauty of friendship even in the midst of harrowing circumstances and offers an inside look at the shortcomings of institutionalized living for the elderly in Canada.