Liam's Going

Liam Williams is heading to college -- which is easy enough for him, he lives in the eternal present, and eagerly anticipates his independence. But for his mother, Cathleen, and his father, Noah -- whose shared present harbors anxiety for their only child's future, as well as shadows of the past from before his birth -- Liam's going is anything but easy. Noah and Cathleen each projects onto their son the lost dreams of youth. So when on this weekend Cathleen leaves Noah alone upstate...
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Liam Williams is heading to college -- which is easy enough for him, he lives in the eternal present, and eagerly anticipates his independence. But for his mother, Cathleen, and his father, Noah -- whose shared present harbors anxiety for their only child's future, as well as shadows of the past from before his birth -- Liam's going is anything but easy. Noah and Cathleen each projects onto their son the lost dreams of youth. So when on this weekend Cathleen leaves Noah alone upstate to fend for himself, and drives Liam down through New York's Hudson Valley to his school, their separation acquires a poignant dimension -- and becomes a moving story of coming to grips without letting go.