Every family is a ghost story ' As a child Charley Benetto was told by his father ' You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy but you can't be both' So he chooses his father only to see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence Decades later Charley is a broken man His life has been destroyed by alcohol & regret He loses his job He leaves his family He hits rock bottom after discovering he won't be invited to his only daughter's wedding & he decides to take his own life Charley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown his final journey But as he staggers into his old house he makes an astonishing discovery His mother
- who died eight years earlier
- is there & welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened What follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for a chance to make good with a lost parent to explain the family secrets & to seek forgiveness