one man is consigned to live entirely within the present with terrible consequences clive waring has the worst case of amnesia ever known 20 years ago he lost his memory and now his wife deborah is the only person he recognizes clive really only has less than 30 seconds memory and sometimes it's as little as perhaps seven seconds it's as little as a sentence i'm going to see your sister adele her daughter's got married recently in new zealand and so they're having a party funny how the ladies acquire a different title when they get married do you know who i'm going to see tomorrow uh buckingham palace no really guess tim you don't know adele all right do you know do you know where i'm going she's having a party at her house tomorrow it's your birthday no do you know why no it's to do with her daughter not sure do you know why her daughter's having a party guess no yeah she's just got married oh is she she just got married and do you know what countries you just got married in oh yeah in new zealand the sentence he is in he will probably have forgotten the sentence before you ask him a question uh and he'll give you an answer but while he's giving the the answer he's already forgotten the question that's how short it is i'm going to see your kids tomorrow you'll see my kids yeah your children what are they up to now do you know what they're up to now guess what you think they're up to no i think i couldn't guess i don't know what their levels were they haven't got a low level last time i was conscious so i didn't know what possible thing they could do no i couldn't possibly guess what where do you think they are right yeah is void behind him it's been like death i've never seen a human being before never had a dream or a thought the brain has been totally inactive day and night the same no thoughts at all as far as i'm concerned the doctors have been totally incompetent i've never seen a doctor the whole time oh look who's comfortable that's a very musical kiss i'm dizzy i don't know which part of the room i'm starting how many dogs