Marian was commissioned to paint various celebrities and sports figures such as Mohammed Ali, Mario Andretti, and Joe Namath and was a part of organizations such as the Guild of Boston Artists and the Rockport Art Association.

The film intersperses this with information about Pam, who held many careers throughout her life that included being a professional model, educator, and social worker.

John Anderson wrote in IndieWire that the film was "remarkable" and "a starkly intimate and revealing picture of woman at her most vulnerable".

[4] David Wiegand writes in the San Francisco Chronicle that you "can almost feel" the characters "in a figurative tug o' war" that he says may break your heart.

[5] In the Washingtonian, critic Douglas Bair describes the documentary as a "cohesive film" that has a "fluid and compellingly visual storyline".