Eighty-two year old Frances Smith, known as Fancy, is suffering from senile dementia. She doesn't know it; neither does her family. Ten of her younger years were consumed with her love for Carlos, a man who worked on her father's farm. Their love blossomed and grew until one fateful day.As an old woman, Fancy spends more and more time in her past, through both her dementia and her conscious remembrances of Carlos. She remembers how they loved to dance at fire halls and other dances. She constantly asks him when they will once again dance. His reply is always the same, "Soon my love."All the while her family tries to come to grips with her dementia.