Delirious

by Damien Wilkins · 2026

When Mary, a former police officer, and her husband Pete, a retired librarian, decide to downsize into a retirement village, they expect a tidy new chapter. Instead, the past resurfaces with a startling phone call from a detective about their son Will, who died in a tragic accident forty years ago. As Mary revisits the brief, poignant life of her late sister, and Pete is haunted by memories of his mother’s lingering delirium, the couple confronts the fragile realities of aging, memory, and responsibility. Damien Wilkins weaves a tender, incisive portrait of a couple navigating loss, lingering ghosts, and the unexpected second chances that emerge when life’s later years demand both care for others and a reckoning with one’s own evolving self.