A YOUNG GIRL’S TRAGIC DEATH DESTROYS HER FAMILY AND CHANGES THEIR LIVES FOREVER. HOW DO THEY COME TO TERMS WITH THEIR LOSS, AND WILL THEY EVER GET OVER IT? When twelve-year-old Billy’s eight-year-old sister is diagnosed with cancer it shatters their happy and loving family. Months of suffering ends in a painful heart-breaking death. Billy’s father takes to drink, his mother has an affair and Billy is left to grieve alone. Billy’s father finds out about his wife’s infidelity and is shocked and angry. He begs her to stay, but unrepentant she leaves him for her lover. Billy hates her mother for breaking up their family. On his own, he cannot be a mother and a father to Billy, and this causes problems between them. A year later having heard nothing from his mother, they receive a letter in post from her filing for divorce. The settlement forces them to sell the house and move into a bedsit. Billy is torn between his parents, as neither have his best interests at heart.