Joyce Vincent was 41 when she was found dead in her home, but she was 38 when she died.  For three years, from 2003-2006, her body lay surrounded by Christmas gifts she was planning to wrap; the television still on.  How does this happen?  Especially to a woman who was social, who two-years prior had a high-powered job at Ernst and Young, who had rubbed elbows with celebrities, and who wanted to get married?  That’s what Carol Morley set to find out.  But her new documentary film, “Dreams of a Life,” is about more than just Joyce Vincent, a young, beautiful London woman whose parents were from the Caribbean and who no one seemed to miss when she was gone.  It’s about life, death, and loneliness.”

• Yes, how does this happen?  I can actually understand someone being dead in their home for three years, but HOW was the television still on?  Shit.  My electric company would have shut off the power were I over 30 days late in payment —much less 36 months late!