Waterlogged, the paradise proves flimsy and slowly falls apart, as much as the sweet-faced Camacho tries to pretend otherwise.
Maria picks up the guide from time to time to read aloud while she checks on her husband, Joseph, who slowly falls asleep in one of the bedrooms.
After a violent robbery in the store, the Italian-American Frank Alpine is hired as Morris's assistant and slowly falls for his daughter.
The painter kisses his wife, returns to the easel, looks at her again, and, while the curtain slowly falls, begins to paint the dead face.
In "Year of the Dog," Pencil, a lovely little beagle living in Southern California, dies when he eats something he shouldn't have, and his grief-struck owner, Peggy Molly Shannonn), slowly falls apart.
Clinging to the belief that her husband will reappear unless and until he is declared legally dead, Annie slowly falls apart, her fragile mental state leaving her more vulnerable to desperate, confused and disturbing visitors from the other side.
