This evocative documentary provides an intimate portrait of a rural Kentucky woman and her experiences with gynecological cancer. Expected to live one year after her diagnosis, Cathy beat the odds and lived for 10. Through graphic story-telling and poignant interviews, we witness the best and worst of doctor/patient relationships. Ultimately, we are changed for the better, as a picture of compassion paints itself in this moving educational, film.

As we befriend Cathy, we remember about “living life to the fullest”. Cathy “had very few regrets” about how she had lived her life and tells us, “that is very comforting to a person who has cancer.” We follow Cathy through the end of her life, and to her community’s hands-on (literally) involvement with Cathy’s body after her death. We are told, “if we can just not be afraid to be afraid...and to get close to the things we’re afraid of...it makes us less afraid of death.”

Through the medium of film, this self-described “81 lb. weakling” who began digging graves in her thirties, has left us a legacy that offers to inspire and teach health-care providers, patients, and anyone dealing with issues around mortality.