Her world shifts and her priorities change dramatically. What matters now is staying alive long enough to marry Mulroney and to secure a safe future for her brother after she's gone. She sets about to do just that with a tenacity that is as misplaced as it is mind boggling. The results are surprising and often heart-rending. She begins to live with a kind of studied recklessness that allows her to chance and dare.
Money seems relatively unimportant now, except to purchase the things that seem presently expedient.
Maybe she can buy a little happiness for herself and for those she loves. She spends an exorbitant amount for a wedding dress. Then she buys a new car and a new home for her brother, Dalk, and sets up a trust fund for him. Her new found audacity seems to have no bounds, she also finds him a prospective wife in Mary Jo, the realtor who sells her a house. A Small Matter explores the emotions of a woman who when faced with death, discovers the abundance of life.