Thrust into the Syrian desert by the Ottoman Turks, young Elise and her mother survived the 1915 Armenian death march.
Elise\'s daughter offers a close-up view here of helping a dependent mother from a thousand miles away..
Elise\'s advancing dementia dimmed her awareness of the family strife swirling around her that would mark the last five years of her life.
But he didn\'t think their lawyer son would turn his eye to those meagre savings.
Leon saved enough for her to get by after his death.
But she never leraned how to drive a car or manage a bank account.
She has spent her entire adult life filling the woman\'s role she was taught to in Syria-cooked, cleaned, prayed, and looked after her three children.
The dream ends when her husband Leon dies and she is diagnosed With Alzheimer\'s disease.
Twenty years later, her new life in America is more than she could ever have dreamed possible.
Thrust into the Syrian desert by the Ottoman Turks, young Elise and her mother survived the 1915 Armenian death march
