A daughter grows up believing her father abandoned the family for another woman, fed that story daily by her mother. When he is dying of cancer, she meets his calls with contempt and accuses him of faking the illness. She stays busy picking out birthday gifts for her mother, never once visiting his hospital bed.
Then she suspects a body donor might be him, and the panic forces her to dig. The DNA report confirms his death, and the truth lands hard: her mother is a compulsive gambler, and her father left to shield his daughter from the fallout. Now she has to live with the years she spent hating the parent who actually protected her — and decide what her mother deserves.
