This story happened in late 1970s, in a very ordinary American family. To some extent, it was not a very common family though, because everyone who knew them all admired their perfect family life. But everything changed after a phone call from distant France. Ten years ago, Bob, the husband had had an affair with a French doctor Nicole, who died recently in a car accident, leaving a child named Jean-Claude. Without Bob's knowing for ten years, he was Bob's. An old friend of Bob and Nicole called Bob to see whether Bob could take the child in, at least for a while, during which he could manage the future things well for Jean-Claude. Bob could do nothing but to confess all his past to his wife and they reached a bitter agreement to have that child in their care only for a month. During the torturing month...