The Warden Said I Died Already

Seven years ago, Madeline Wright's three-year-old daughter Sophie fell from a penthouse balcony. Her son Hudson, the only witness, told police he saw his mother push her. Her husband Nathaniel, a brilliant defense attorney, secured her a maximum-security sentence, and her biological parents, the wealthy Montgomerys, disowned her.

Now Nathaniel and twelve-year-old Hudson arrive at a rural farmhouse belonging to Madeline's adoptive brother Luke, demanding she donate bone marrow to Isabella Montgomery, whose leukemia has relapsed. The warden says Madeline died two years ago; a neighbor insists Luke is paralyzed in a hospital and his sister has been dead for two years. Nathaniel refuses to believe it, threatening Luke's pay and then setting the farmhouse ablaze.

Madeline, a tethered soul, watches her husband and son destroy the only proof she was ever loved, unable to make them hear her.