The Last Strawberry

Helen has spent decades keeping the peace in her home, serving her husband Arthur, raising two children, and now caring for her grandson. When her daughter Emma mails her a box of expensive imported strawberries from abroad, Helen soaks them carefully, only to have her husband and son eat every one before she can taste a single piece. Her husband calls her careless and gluttonous; her son asks where to buy more for his wife, Chloe.

Standing over the water-stained coffee table, Helen suddenly feels her life is meaningless. She calls Emma about the visa she once mentioned, and Emma, overjoyed, helps her apply. But at home, Arthur mocks her, Mark demands to know who will cook, and Chloe complains the baby went unfed all afternoon.

As Helen waits for her application to be approved, she stops washing, cooking, and apologizing. The family that never noticed her begins to realize something has changed.