Victory Through Senility
Stuck in “an old folks home in drag,” Jim spends his days reliving his youth and waiting for the first signs of his own senility. He even fakes senility by sending the same confused message on a postcard over and over to his son and family. But when Jim gets an idea about how to change his son’s opinion of “the old man,” he gets excited enough to want to get others involved. And he ends up enlisting the aid of an eccentric group of allies: Sarge’s one big joy in retirement is cheating the Military Book Club out of free maps and books; Agnes is writing an endless dirty book; and Max, the punch-drunk “Great White Dope,” sits facing the window all day. But fueled by the common desire to break from their ruts, the unlikely team plunges into Jim’s plan to change things.
