Synopsis

The familiar scent of lavender and old paper hung in the air as Sheila stepped across the threshold. It had been too long. A lifetime, almost, since she’d last stood in her childhood home. The house itself seemed to sigh around her, settling into a quiet acceptance of her return. Her mother, Clara, was in the kitchen, humming softly as she stirred something on the stove. Her father, Arthur, sat in his armchair by the fire, lost in the pages of a book – a habit he’d never quite broken. The sce