The story begins with a woman as she walks alone on her way to attend a funeral. The man who died had been important to her, but for her own reasons she had not seen him in many years. At the grave the eulogy for the man, Jack Randall, had begun. The pastor quickly fell into his recollections of Jack's life well lived and as he did so Jack's daughter Jennifer just as quickly zoned out. She is angry and grieving, but not necessarily over his passing. Her mind drifts as she focuses on a formative event in her childhood. Her father had not been there to share in one of her greatest triumphs and the experience had left a scar she relieved in vivid detail.