Astrid Lark

Olive is a 13-minute psychological drama follows Sam (Tom Koch) and Marie (Lesley Ann Warren), an elderly married couple living in New York City, who try to cope with the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. In his dementia-induced delusions, Sam believes he is back in the 1980s and mistakes his wife for his grandmother. Sam takes the woman he believes is his sick grandmother on walks through Central Park, he helps her with her chores, and reminds her to take her medication. Marie plays into his delusions to avoid confusing him and provoking conflict. Their reality begins to crumble when Sam discovers an ID stating he was born in 1958.