When Jason’s estranged parents suddenly reappear after his death demanding the house he left behind, Alice finds herself at the center of a painful confrontation. Grieving and exhausted, she agrees to hear them out—but only if they can answer the one question that haunted Jason to his final breath: why did they abandon him? Years earlier, Jason had shown up on Alice’s doorstep with nothing but a backpack and broken heart,
cast out by his parents without explanation. Her mother welcomed him without hesitation, and from then on, he became part of their family. Through high school struggles, college stress, and eventually, Jason’s devastating cancer diagnosis, Alice stood by him. She worked extra hours, paid the mortgage on the house he had bought, and held onto hope when he no longer could. Jason never stopped wishing his parents would come back, but they never did—until now, with cold entitlement in their voices and a lawyer by their side.