For fun, Chambers started writing a list of activities to do before he ' kicks the bucket.' After hearing he has less than a year to live, he dejectedly discards his list. While in the hospital, Chambers and Cole manage to find common ground. Cole, a four-time divorced healthcare tycoon and cultured loner, enjoys drinking kopi luwak, one of the most expensive coffees in the world, and tormenting his personal valet Matthew, whom he mistakenly calls Thomas. Chambers, a gifted amateur historian and family man, wanted to become a history professor in his youth but chose to start a family instead. Two elderly men, blue-collar automotive mechanic Carter Chambers and billionaire Edward Cole meet for the first time in a hospital owned by Cole after both men are diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
