Then he's called to testify by HUAC and rats out all of his friends. He can't understand why his friends abandon him. After all, they were guilty. Years later, Carnegie Hall features his work and he gains redemption. Great sea monsters become amphibians and take up residence in NY harbor and the like.
Memories drift by like clouds.
Often hazy or romanticized but with glimpses of harsher reality. This would be her early happy memories. As the movie ends, she dies and from her house come her children and grandchildren and others who lives she has touched. As the camera pans back and above we see the strands of her life moving like a spider web into infinity. High Above for Clouds.