SYNOPSIS
When Laney announces to Franklin at their fortieth wedding anniversary dinner that she is leaving him, the lives of every member of the family are changed. Through conflict, covid, mass shooting, abortion, and more, this family will find forgiveness, resilience, and hope.
Laney leaves for the Oklahoma panhandle in search of Roz, their estranged daughter, who left home at sixteen, and the nineteen-year-old granddaughter, Maggie, Laney has never met.
Shortly after she leaves, Franklin contracts Covid which morphs into the long-haul form. His episodes of fogginess and disorientation awaken memories of abuse at the hands of his father.
Gretchen, his sister, comes to take care of him. Four years earlier her husband was killed in a mass shooting in her small town. Soon she will return home to give her victim impact statement at the murderer’s sentencing.
Maggie, the granddaughter, becomes pregnant and due to medical complications needs an abortion, but she lives in a state where it is outlawed. What will she do? Where will she go? Will the family find the resilience to come together for everyone’s sake?
