As he feels Rebecca and the kids really didn't know her all that well and doesn't want to subject them to the long four hour one-way drive, Jack makes the trip alone to Ohio to arrange for his mother's funeral, she who just passed of an aneurysm. Upon arrival at Marilyn's cousin Debbie's house, where Marilyn had been living without Stanley's knowledge ever since Jack got her out of the Pearson family house thirteen years ago, Jack discovers that his tasks associated to the funeral are limited to one - the eulogy - in Marilyn having prearranged most of it already. Jack will find this task the most difficult of all as while the two spoke on the telephone every week precisely at 18:00 Sunday, their relationship for those thirteen years was built primarily on these calls, the end of each which was marked by Marilyn's statement, "don't let me keep you," which Jack always obliged in his own busy life and which was Marilyn not only not wanting to be a bother, but not be a bother specifically to Jack. Still loving his mother and wanting to say something meaningful about her and her as his mother but not really knowing anything about her life in Ohio, he may have to go back to the painful period of when they had a true relationship, namely when they both lived under the same roof as Stanley.
—Huggo