After being publicly assigned as unpaid childcare for her sister Marielle’s growing family while her parents celebrate the pregnancy announcement without acknowledging her presence at all, Diane walks out mid-dinner, finally recognizing that her family has never seen her as anything more than free labor. The next morning, a call from an unknown number turns out to be the police department, and whatever they tell her sends her rushing straight back to her parents’ house.
The timing feels impossible to ignore: less than twelve hours after Diane finally refused to stay silent, something has happened that pulls her right back into the orbit of the family she’d just walked away from, leaving her to wonder whether this call is coincidence or consequence.
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