Doug considers himself very much his mother’s son and has had little contact with his father over the years, including the formative ones during which his father was constantly away from home working. Doug videotaped his parents’ 50th wedding anniversary and that occasion led to some video interviews with his parents and, in particular, his mother. At the party his parents seemed happy enough although they appeared a bit grumpy which could easily be written off to old age. Never guessing that a video of Minna and Mike Block could be an augury for a documentary film, nothing more happened to the project until Minna Block abruptly died of pneumonia.