Synopsis

The familiar quiet of home settled around Maggie, a quiet punctuated only by the unspoken. Her mother was having a date. Again. Maggie found herself at Sonny’s, a familiar ache in her chest. Tom, ever observant, remarked that older people often crave conversation when alone. A sentiment that felt particularly poignant tonight. She returned home to find not a shared evening of stories and laughter, but a different kind of intimacy unfolding between her mother and her companion. A vibrant, unr