It is the first of several surprise meetings that are both funny and make a larger point.
So Magdalena is cleaning toilets for her daughters boyfriends family.
At least she can say so.

Peter Dinklage in ‘She Came to Me’Protagonist Pictures
Surprisingly, in a way, as Patricia loves nothing so much as cleaning herself.
She would embrace Marie Kondos instruction to keep only what gives you joy, except that nothing really does.
Hathaway is great, Dinklage is great, Tomei is incredible.

And perhaps the greatest romance is that salty whiff of life on and below decks.
Katrina is based in Baton Rouge laissez les bons temps rouler!
but chugs her fathers old boat the length of the coast and the eastern rivers.
What isShe Came to Mehere to tell us?
That it is possible to find true love at 11 a.m. in a dive bar.
That true love can come to us at 16 or 60.
And that a life spent at sea is the life for me.
Only in stories, maybe but then, what are stories for?