Mother, I came to say goodbye. I′m leaving." So begins one of the monologues ot Alexandet, a le" witer. One grey Sunday before he enters the hocpítal never to leave again - and prompted by a tours letter from his deceased wife, Anna - Alexander reflects on his Iife, regrets and guit As the weigri orTs memories bear down on him, he must reconcíle with his past in order to accept his future ano las. He was a workaholic who neglected his wife and daughter, And with the letter from Anna, descnbng a perfect summer day thirty years before, he remembers it as he wished it had been, not how it was. Dung his last free hours before he heads on his final joumey, Alexander meets a young Albanian refugee wno offers him the companionship that he previously shunned. It tums into a prelude to his final voyage, as Alexander vows to help the boy back across the border. Winner of the Palme D′Or at Cannes, Eternity and a Day is a languorous, deliberately paced meditation on regret and memory.