At loose ends after being fired from his latest stint at underemployment, Duncan takes a job as handyman in the Minneapolis apartment building where his grandparents live. Ronald, struggling with deepening dementia, palsied hands and kidney problems, insists he can see the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, from his terrace. Screenwriter Brent Boyd, expanding his three-person play, has an ear for the way smart people use humor to keep pain at arm's length, but too often he pushes his dramatic setup past believability.

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