When 75-year-old Richard spots his ex-wife Vanessa with a much younger man at a café, jealousy burns. Their divorce is still fresh, and the sight stings—so he storms over, demanding answers.
But the young man turns to him and quietly asks, “Mom… is this my dad?”
Stunned, Richard listens as Vanessa explains. At 17, before they ever got together, she had a brief fling with him and got pregnant. Pressured by her parents, she claimed someone else was the father. That man vanished, and she gave the baby up for adoption.
The young man—Simon—was that child. Raised abroad, he found out the truth after his adoptive father passed and spent months tracking down Vanessa.
Now, face-to-face with the son he never knew, Richard is overcome. “I missed your whole life,” he says, choking up, “but I don’t want to miss what’s left.” As they embrace, Vanessa watches through tears—three lives once broken, now starting to heal.
