James was a young survivor of the foster care system, who could barely get by, when an elderly neighbor, Mrs. Rhode, proposed an agreement that would change her life: take care of her in her final years, and she would leave him everything in her will. For more than a year, James took him to his appointments, went shopping and repaired his house. Despite its grumbling character, their relationship evolved, between meals of burnt meatloaf, television shows and life stories exchanges, moving from a simple commercial arrangement to a deep and meaningful bond.
When Madame Rhode died, James attended the opening of the will, to discover that his house and his savings had been given to charities, while his jewels returned to his niece. Thinking that he had been cruelly betrayed and that their whole bond had been just a lie, James fell through the lawyer’s office and returned alone to his apartment, wiped out by the loss of the only family he had ever known.
