Rodney Williams, a senior London County Council bureaucrat in 1953 London, receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. He neglects to tell his son Michael and daughter-in-law, Fiona, instead opting to withdraw half of his life savings, purchase a lethal amount of sleeping medicine, and commit suicide in a seaside resort town. Finding himself unable to go through with it, he gives the sleeping medicine to Mr. Sutherland, an insomniac writer he meets in a restaurant. Moved by Williams’ story, Sutherland takes him for a night on the town, where Williams replaces his traditional bowler hat with a trilby. In a pub, he sings “The Rowan Tree,” a Scottish folk song from his childhood.Living 2022 Movie Download.
Returning to London but not to work, Williams runs into Miss Harris, a former colleague who took up a position at a restaurant while he was away. Williams’ nosy neighbor spots the pair having lunch and tells Fiona, who demands Michael speak to his father about the potential scandal. Meanwhile, Williams attempts to tell Michael about his diagnosis, but neither find themselves able to bring up what they need to talk about.
As Williams’ condition worsens, he attempts to spend more time with Harris, whose youthful vigor he envies and would like to regain before he dies. Realizing the best way to spend his remaining time is to do some good, Williams rallies his office to construct a children’s playground that has been bogged down by paperwork. Though he is able to push the process through by standing up to his colleagues and superiors, he dies shortly after construction is finished. At his funeral, well-attended by the people he has helped, Michael guesses to Harris that Williams told her about his diagnosis but not him.