A wild-haired 21-year-old wearing leather pants refuses point-blank to choose anything at all. An older man incessantly talks about sex and prostitutes, but ultimately chooses a memory in which his daughter hands him the bouquet at her wedding. A 78-year-old woman talks about a new dress her brother bought her for a childhood dance recital, a brother she loved and took care of "until the very end." A prostitute remembers a client who was kind a potential suicide victim recalls what made him pull back from the brink an old man remembers the breeze on his face when he rode a trolley to school. Told that 30 other children/teens have chosen Disneyland rides, she is gently coaxed into coming up with something more original from her childhood (the scent of fresh laundry and the feeling of her mother, whom she was cuddling against). There is also a teenager whose happiest memory is a ride at Disneyland. There is an aviator whose happiest moments were spent flying through the clouds.
There is a gentle old woman whose fondest memory is cherry blossoms. Lengthy interviews take place in the lodge, with each person having different perspectives of their lives. Twenty-two souls of different ages and backgrounds arrive and are received by the counsellors, who explain them their situation. They will spend eternity within their happiest memory. In this way, the souls will be able to re-experience this moment for eternity, forgetting the rest of their life. They are given just a couple of days to identify their happiest memory, after which the workers design, stage and film them. Every Monday, a group of recently deceased people check-in: the social workers in the lodge ask them to go back over their life and choose one single memory to take into the afterlife. A small, mid-20th century social-service-style structure is a way station between life and death.