p 　　In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker 三九 s life: he 三九 s an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time he 三九 s in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother he 三九 s a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children 三九 s choir In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men he recalls lovers and his mother 三九 s cremation A nurse sits beside him on his last night in his last breath, he reaches forward and back p