For 18 months, the film follows the struggles of Sharon Marroquin, an accomplished choreographer and modern dancer in Austin, Texas. Cancer affects the entire family unit. When she gets diagnosed with breast cancer, Dali her son is five. Sharon and Pepe got divorced two months before her diagnosis. She needs support, Pepe needs space and Dali needs his parents. Like any mother, Sharon is very worried for her son. How does breast cancer affect all of their needs? Dali is at a perfect age to process complex concepts of life and death in very simplistic terms. How does his understanding of life and death influence Sharon’s fears?
Suspended between life and death, she begins to channel her uncertainty about mortality into an artistic project. The artistic project, The Materiality of Impermanence, and the subsequent creative process allows her to escape to another realm that is not confined by physical limitations, disease, child-rearing, teaching and running a home. How this escape heals and shapes Sharon’s perceptions of life, death and living forms the narrative arc of the film. At its heart, the film is about love and living in the moment. The sheer resilience of the protagonist to put aside her pain and push through the insurmountable hurdles imposed on her by life and create a beautiful, raw and honest dance that embodies the brutality of the disease and the beauty of the human spirit will move and inspire every viewer.