The Gordon sisters sent money for their younger brother to fulfill filial duties, but money fueled the greed of their brother and sister-in-law. Their father, in late-stage lung cancer, died. The couple hid the truth from the sisters and secretly buried him. Returning to the village, the sisters faced condemnation. They walked to their ancestral grave. A new grave stood there, piercing their self-deception—they hadn't seen their father for the last time, exploited by their brother.