When Deborah Monroe picks up her daughter, Grace, from her friend's house one dark rainy night, the drive home turnsinto a nightmare.
Grace, who only has a learners license, asks to drive and Deborah allows her, but regrets it as the rain intensifies.
They live quite a way out of town on a long dark road, and catch a glimpse of something only seconds before they hit.
The something turns out to be Calvin Mckenna, Grace's History teacher. He appears to be not seriously hurt, but unconscious, and what on earth was he doing out there, on foot, in the rain, late at night?
They live quite a way out of town on a long dark road, and catch a glimpse of something only seconds before they hit.
The something turns out to be Calvin Mckenna, Grace's History teacher. He appears to be not seriously hurt, but unconscious, and what on earth was he doing out there, on foot, in the rain, late at night?
The police and paramedics arrive and take the injured man to hospital and it seems only natural to let the police believe
that she, Deborah, was driving the car. She doesn't lie, just omits the truth. Grace is traumatized and appears to be
hiding the truth about what really went on at her friend's house earlier that night. The the hospital calls to tell Deborah
that Calvin McKenna has died.
As the situation spirals out of control, Deborah allows every opportunity to tell the truth, that Grace was driving, not her, to slip away. She has to protect her daughter. But is she making things worse by keeping it a secret?
The lie changes everything, her relationships with Grace, her father, even her ex-husband. It affects Grace, too, in that she cannot communicate with anyone anymore, her mother, her best friend, her schoolwork suffers, she starts to crave punishment for a man's death, which she perceives as her fault. She needs to tell the truth, but to whom?
A poignant story of a mother struggling to protect and hold on to her family.
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