Five years after losing their son Robert, Clara still protects the untouched college fund created for him — a symbol of love, sacrifice, and hope. Despite years of silent heartbreak and failed attempts to have another child, she and her husband Martin have never considered using it for anything else.
At Martin’s birthday dinner, the peace is broken when his sister Amber demands the fund for her own son, Steven. She argues it’s wasted now, pointing to Clara’s age and infertility. The room falls silent — until Jay, their father-in-law, reveals Amber had already spent Steven’s original college savings on a Disney trip. He calls out her entitlement and her failure to guide Steven, who’s struggling in school.
Clara, steady through grief, finally speaks: the fund is Robert’s legacy. To give it away would be to erase him all over again. Amber storms out and later sends a bitter message, accusing Clara of selfishness. Clara doesn’t reply — love, she knows, is neither owed nor transferable.
That night, Clara sits with Robert’s old telescope. Martin joins her, and together they hold space for what’s gone — and for what still matters. The fund remains, untouched. Not out of bitterness, but because it still holds a boy’s dreams.