The Hemmings were once the closest and happiest of families whose children all had very bright and successful futures ahead of them. But then tragedy strikes: their daughter Elena went out last night to celebrate her twenty-first birthday and never came home.
When Elena’s body is found the next day severely beaten and raped and barely even alive, the Hemmings think that their lives can’t possibly get any worse.
But they’re wrong. The nightmare has only just begun.
As Elena’s comatose condition tragically deteriorates, the Hemmings lose all hope of ever getting their beloved daughter and sister back. Then just when they make the heart-breaking decision to finally switch off her life support machine, they’re given news which will change their lives forever and tear their family apart in ways that they never could have imagined…
