The story opens in New Orleans, during the middle of Hurricane Katrina, in a hospital room of an elderly woman, Daisy. She asks her daughter to read to her from a diary, which turns out to be the tales of Benjamin Button. Amazing Academy Award-winning make-up and visual effects takes Brad Pitt from a geriatric baby as he ages backwards while growing up. Benjamin has to cope with being a young boy in the body of an old man & is raised in a nursing home, where he learns about loss and death and first meets the love of his life, Daisy, as a child. When active enough he sets out to explore the world, having his first drink, working on a tugboat, going to a brothel, experiencing WWII and a love affair with a married woman in Russia. The story is anchored by his reoccurring meetings with Daisy (an excellent Cate Blanchett) as he becomes younger, and the diary-reading scenes with Daisy and her daughter. Although Benjamin Button shares some similarities with Forest Gump (the screenwriter Eric Roth wrote both), it is a much smaller and more personal journey.