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When her husband’s estranged father dies, a Korean-American psychologist tries to keep her depression-prone spouse connected to life as funeral debt, a faith-based inheritance ultimatum, and their elderly dog’s medical crisis turn one loss into a test of how much grief a marriage can carry.

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A marriage can survive grief, money problems, religion, family obligation and a dying dog. The harder question is whether it survives two people protecting each other from the worst true thing.

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