Tears of Regret

When the economy collapses, a wife watches her husband's salary shrink to a fraction of what it was, just as their daughter Sophie is diagnosed with a severe heart condition. To fund his new business, she takes out loans and borrows from every relative she has. The venture fails, and the family spends seven years surviving in a cramped, damp basement apartment. Their daughter dies in her arms because they cannot afford the five-thousand-dollar specialty drug that might have saved her.

Then she runs into one of her husband's old colleagues, who congratulates her: Macaulay's pharmaceutical company is now worth billions, and for seven years he has been secretly sending ten thousand dollars a month to Isabelle, his first love, a single mother with a sick daughter. At his office she hears him order that Isabelle's salary be raised again and that the drug go to her daughter first, not his own.

Confronted, Macaulay can only ask to carry Sophie's ashes to the gravesite. What is left of a marriage built on seven years of lies?