Foster Sumner is ten years old. He likes toy soldiers, Tadpole hunting, going to school, and the beach. Best of all, he likes listening to his dad's stories. But then Foster's dad starts forgetting things. No one is too worried at first. Foster and Dad giggle about it.,Dad goes out for milk and comes back with cat food, when the cat has been dead for five years. But then the forgetting gets worse. And suddenly no one is laughing anymore. a touching story about the power of love and family in the face of a parent's early-onset Alzheimer's disease.