Brother, I Wish I’d Never Been Born

Holly has one month left to live when her brother Owen throws her out of the house. Sick and alone in a tiny rental room, she finds an old video camera and turns it on, only to see a recording of Owen as a boy, promising their mother he will protect his sister with his life. When Holly whispers that she no longer wants to be his sister, the boy on the screen seems to hear her and demands to know who she is.

In the videos, young Owen folds paper cranes for the sister who is about to be born, while the dying Holly tells him not to let that sister be born at all. Owen has long since replaced her with Ivy, the girl he calls his only sister, and he now waits coldly for Holly to die. Yet the boy in the recording once swore to protect her, and Holly cannot make him believe the cruelty he will grow into.

With Ivy's eighteenth birthday party ahead and her body failing, Holly must face the brother who cast her out and the mother she never met.