Every day at work, a young nurse with obsessive-compulsive disorder must stare her greatest fear in the eye: the loss of mental faculties that so often comes with old age. The strange, dark world of confusion and helplessness that her patients live in is terrifying. Without her compulsive behaviors, she is overwhelmed by the fear that she is destined for a similar fate. Nevertheless, she returns each day to do battle with Dementia, the awful condition that her elderly patients must live with for the rest of their lives.