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There is a moment in everyone's life where we realize the truth of our family.

Sometimes, this truth is devastating. It may be borne out of years of crossed communications, broken relationships, life failures and shattered dreams.

Just as often, however, this truth is a truth worth celebrating. We discover it when we are ready to embrace a different reality, a perception perhaps very different than that which we've long accepted. We may, in fact, discover love where we long recognized only dysfunction.

Then, on occasion, we are gifted with a very different truth about family. It is neither good nor bad, a truth neither to be grieved not celebrated. Sometimes, we learn, family simply is.

The beauty of "Must Read After My Death," a documentary founded upon the long hidden truths of the real life family of filmmaker Morgan Dews, is that these truths are not grieved nor celebrated, dramatized nor stylized. Utilizing an extensive collection of dictaphone tapes, home videos and photographs that he acquired after the death of his grandmother, Allis, Dews has crafted a searingly honest and intimate portrait of a family, his family, that is simultaneously mesmerizing, heartbreaking and yet strangely, eerily, even a bit comfortably familiar.

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