Death and Transfiguration 1983 In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tuckers life hes an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time hes in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother hes a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a childrens choir In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men he recalls lovers and his mothers cremation A nurse sits beside him on his last night in his last breath, he reaches forward and back