What does a woman feel when, after 15 years of silence, the name of the man who once told her, "You bore me," appears on her phone screen?
What if he's calling not for her, but for an inheritance he learned about too late?
Marina is a pianist whose husband kicked her out of the house with her two-year-old son in her arms. Her mother-in-law stood nearby and smiled. No alimony, no help, not a single call in 15 years. Marina raised her son alone, and he became what no one else in the Astakhov family could. But when her father-in-law died and left everything to his grandson, her ex-husband returned. He didn't expect to see the boy he abandoned grow up to be.
In this story, you will hear:
How one woman built her life from scratch—without other people's money or help
Why her father-in-law, whom she had only seen once in her life, made the most important decision
What the son said to his father at their first meeting—and why the mother-in-law lost her smile for the first time