Frozen Time

Pearl is an ordinary woman, a widow and grandmother; she lives in a small town in Florida and has been diagnosed with stage-four cancer a couple months ago. Where she lives, the ocean is blue and the sun shines bright, it’s never cold, and no snow ever falls from the sky.
Her children don’t know that she’s sick because they never call; she wishes they will, she sends money, cards, but they never answer. She’s lonely in her small town and there are not many people to talk to or do things with. When she was young, Pearl always dreamed of seeing snow but it never happened, plain rides were too expensive and her mother didn’t own a car. As she grew up, it just never crossed her mind to travel.
Now everything is different, the doctors tell her that she only has a couple of months to live. So she decides it’s time to move; it’s time to make her dreams come true before she dies. She will rent a car and on her way to Maine, she will stop by to see her children. It’s September and by the time she will get to Maine it will be December; the only thing she is worried about is whether she’ll make it until then.
Here she goes on her adventure of a lifetime. As she leaves Florida for Georgia, she passes by rainy Atlanta and makes her first stop at her daughter’s house. She rings the bell and no one answers. Pearl goes back to her car and waits hour after hour but no one seems to show up at the door, so she waits some more. All of a sudden, someone comes to the door, sees the car, opens the door and slams it. Pearl sees her daughter’s face and understands she doesn’t want to see her. She leaves to go to a hotel.
Once there, Pearl parks the car and goes to her room. As she dries off her coat, she hears someone knocking at the door. She runs to...

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... sh can’t spend as much time in each city that she has wished.
At the hotel Pearl settled in comfortably because she was going to stay in New York till Halloween. She goes into the bathroom to take her shower and put on her pajamas, but coming back to her bed, Pearl feels dizzy and passes out on the floor.
The maid knocks on the door but no one answers, she then listens to see if anyone is in the shower but she doesn’t hear water. So she takes her key card and walks in carefully so no one will be startled, but instead she finds a passed out old lady on the ground. The maid screams for help and the manager shows up and calls an ambulance.
Pearl awakens and is suddenly worried. The doctor comforts her by telling her that she just doesn’t drink enough water, and since her body is sensitive now, she must be more careful. Pearl relieved is discharged from the hospital.