We All Want Impossible Things

Content Warning: This section of the guide discusses terminal illness, death, grieving, and drug use, which feature in We All Want Impossible Things.

Edi and Ash sit in Edi’s room at Graceful Shepherd Hospice—nicknamed Shapely—and talk to Cedar, the resident music therapist. Cedar tells the pair that he doesn’t care about fame and is perfectly happy just playing music at the care center. Edi is currently in her third week at Shapely, despite the doctors’ prognosis that she had only a week or two to live. Down the hallway comes the sound of another resident’s television playing the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Ash asks Edi if she remembers her brother visiting that morning, but she has forgotten.

Ash and Edi’s brother Jonah are talking in bed after having sex. As they discuss Edi’s deteriorating state, Ash’s teenage daughter, Belle, bursts into the room and asks Ash to sign her field-trip permission slip, then leaves to finish making dinner. Ash and Jonah get dressed and go downstairs. As Ash helps Belle get dinner ready, her estranged husband, Honey, arrives. Over dinner, he tells everyone about his visit with