Ben and Brenda Tremblay should have been enjoying the twilight years of their life together.

They should have been spending languid days with their daughter and grandchildren, supported by a universe of friends and savoring quiet hours in a home filled with mementos.

But Brenda suffers from Alzheimer's disease in a care hospital, a cruel, final obstacle for a couple who survived profound conflict and unthinkable loss in their 63 years of marriage.

Ben is haunted by memories as he struggles to cope. Yet those same thoughts inspire him to savor the remnants of what Brenda's overbearing father once dismissed as "a reasonably viable marriage," as the principles of their wedding vows – love, trust, honesty, fidelity, openness, acceptance, partnership and commonality of purpose and values – are tested again and again.

A Reasonably Viable Marriage is a story of love and loss, mistakes and forgiveness, and the human capacity to defy the forces that threaten what matters most.

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