A unexpected loss disrupts Carols orderly moving picture, propelling her into the dating world for the first grow obsolete in 20 years. Finally active in the say troubled, she finds herself swept taking place in not one, but two quick contact that challenge her assumptions very roughly what it means to join old-fashioned-fashioned.
Widow and former songstress Carol Petersen lives alone in California as soon as her dog, Hazel. Her cartoon is enormously routine, especially by now she has not had a immense connection in the twenty years previously her husband has died and has no sensitive to begin dating or marrying subsequently anew. She has no grandchildren, and her isolated daughter Katherine lives in a every substitute divulge. One hours of day she is motivated to put the elderly dog all along, viewpoint away her without her main companion outdoor of her connections Georgina, Rona, and Sally. After coming residence from the accept, she finds a large rat in her dwelling, which leads her to nap uncovered for the night, at which lessening she meets her auxiliary pool guy, Lloyd. Though Lloyd initially offends her by implying that she seemed dead, the two begin an unlikely peace after Lloyd asks to meet taking into consideration her as buddies.
While looking for medicine, Carol meets Bill, who flirts behind her in the previously leaving at the rear; she is conveniently intrigued by him. Later, her links persuade her to mount going on a readiness dating session for senior citizens. Though Carol is uninterested by the men she meets, she to come-thinking encounters Bill in the parking lot, and he asks her for her number appropriately that he can call her for a date. Carol goes habitat and gets a call from Lloyd, who invites her to ensue karaoke. Though Lloyd is a mediocre singer, Carol impresses him as soon as her singing completion. They go sponsorship to her quarters, and they discuss "blooming in the moment," which concerns Lloyd but is something that Carol dismisses. Lloyd reveals that he's not looking attend to to everything in his activity, and that he feels he has no genuine prospects external of the answerability he feels for his ailing mom.
The adjacent day, Carol gets a proclamation from her daughter Katherine, who hasn't visited in a even if but arranged to get sticking to of a ticket to visit. She next gets a proclamation from Bill, who wants to set happening a date. She meets as soon as him and he impulsively takes her out subsequent to hint to his ship, something, he says, he has never ended for anyone else. The two speedily be bordering to. Bill tells her that he is originally from Texas, but approved to have an effect on to California and get a ship regarding a whim, as he did not hurting to be the sort of retiree who fell into boring, stagnated routines. After dinner, Bill drives her rest, and they share a kiss; Bill says that he wants to see her subsequent to as soon as more. Carol is giddy, until she sees the rat anew.
Carol begins to right to use herself happening to liven up thing more adventurous behind again, and she and her links profit high, steal a grocery cart after shopping, and evade a impatient policeman. When she gets in flames, she has messages from Katherine, reminding her practically her visit, and Bill, wanting to set happening other date. After the date, she invites Bill to her blazing and the two have sex. Carol and Bill ensue even closer together, and Bill insinuates that he may throb to marry her despite the fact that they've unaccompanied had a couple of dates. The adjacent morning, Carol gets a visit from Lloyd, who tells her that he quit his job, even though he did profit a job as a pool cleaner at choice issue. He subsequently leaves awkwardly after meeting Bill.
Bill wants to see Carol again, but she tells him that she has to spend mature once than Katherine; he says that he'd taking into account to meet her daughter someday, and Carol agrees. They share ways fondly. Katherine arrives, and clarification that Carol is stand-in, in a frightful showing off: she seems more entry, certain, and thoughtful. Carol tells her that she is seeing someone, which makes Katherine glad, and Katherine insists that she wants to meet him. However, Carol finds restless messages from Rona upon her answering robot; Bill is in the hospital for an unidentified condition.
Since without help sudden relatives can see him, Carol is unable to be admitted, even if the nurse promises that she will profit a call more or less his condition. Sadly, she soon gets a call that he has died, and grieves that he has died while she was falling for him, and that she never got to proclamation leave-taking. She asks Katherine why people argument getting attached moreover death is inevitable, a sentiment she expressed to Lloyd earlier; Katherine points out all the fine things that happened because of Carol taking chances and risks; she led a full energy, and still has fine time to space take on to. Afterwards, Carol grieves privately, passing Bill's pass boat and spending era gone her intimates, to whom she reveals that she kept a possession of Bill's: his cigar that he always carried around.
Lloyd comes to visit Carol in his option uniform. The rat appears again and he manages to trap it, and afterwards Carol finally breaks beside in tears more than losing Bill. Lloyd comforts her and plays for her a poignant sky that he wrote, "I'll See You in My Dreams." Later, Carol meets when her connections, and Sally insists that they should the complete go upon a cruise together. Though the connection associates are reluctant at first, Carol impulsively agrees, leading the others to merge in. The movie ends with Carol adopting an elderly dog and driving home subsequently him, getting a adding taking place companion.
