When Beth Simon was seventeen her mother suffered a debilitating stroke. Anna Simon had been an active, able, loving mother and homemaker. She lived the last six years of her life without the ability to speak or move the right side of her body. Even before Anna's death, Beth and her siblings lost the woman who was the center of their lives. With and Without Her tells the story of a family's struggle through loss, illness and shattered expectations towards endurance and healing.