Italia Ricci („Unnatural History“) spielt die weibliche Hauptrolle April, eine aufstrebende junge Journalistin, die versucht, Beruf und Familie unter einen Hut zu bringen. Ihre verwitwete Mutter Sara (Mary Page Keller, „New York Cops – N.Y.P.D. Blue“), ihre rebellische kleine Schwester Brenna (Haley Ramm, „Red State“) und ihre Großmutter halten sie auf Trab. Gerade als sich eine Liebesbeziehung mit ihrem Arbeitskollegen Dominic (Richard Brancatisano, „Elephant Princess – Zurück nach Manjipoor“) anbahnt, ereilt April die niederschmetternde Nachricht, dass sie Krebs hat.
Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness everyday. Charlie , in a coma for several months, attending meanwhile helplessly bustle around him. He sees nothing , but he hears everything ...
Set in contemporary Montreal, “This Life” is a family saga focusing on Natalie Lawson, an accomplished columnist and single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to prepare her teenage children for life without her. Her tight-knit family – sister, two brothers and parents – do the best they can to help her, while coping with their own responses to this revelation.