Holmes & Watson » 20. 01. 2010, 20:54
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans,
elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New
Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline.
Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's
lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his
entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was
his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at
birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does
survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological
father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in
childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and
caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at
that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although
separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact
throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age
they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary
are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the
time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy
gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood
years
The curious case of Benjamin Button