The Call From Eighteen Years Ago

On the day Jessica is admitted to Crownstone College, her parents throw a thirty-table banquet for her younger brother Jason, who has just entered vocational school. In the hall, Jason wishes aloud that his sister will marry soon and stop wasting the family's money, and the relatives applaud his good sense. Jessica, diagnosed with severe depression, sits alone in a corner. She takes her medical report and walks to the hotel rooftop, where her phone rings: her parents from eighteen years ago are on the line, her young father laughing through tears that they have a daughter, her young mother asking whether their child grew up feeling loved.