When Color Fades is a stirring look into the anatomy of memory loss and the frailty of misconstrued relationships. It untangles hard truth with gentle irony as it explores a mother and daughter's turbulent pursuit of closure. When Annabelle's husband dies unexpectedly, she tears up a letter he wrote alerting their daughter Lily of Annabelle's diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's Disease. Annabelle becomes obsessed about destroying the contents of a red box where she once hid her darkest childhood memories.