Among many memorable vignettes, one man shares a bathtub along with his canine while he shampoos after which blow-dries her fur; an octogenarian contemplating death patiently explains to his hound over their dinner desk that he’ll have to find someone else to look after her before he departs on the "lungo viaggio"; one other old man, seen in a doctor’s workplace after getting banged up by a tree department in the dead of night, incorrigibly ignores the veto of his exasperated spouse, who insist...