Meeting hospice patient Hazel Skelton is a profound and uplifting experience. Despite facing a stark diagnosis, she remains open, entertaining, and genuinely lovely company. However, just beneath the fragile shield she has carefully built to protect her loved ones, a different and difficult story of her illness unfolds. t plays out in private moments of loneliness and unwitnessed bravery. Even so, Hazel is “in a very good place.”