Closing the Ring

Marie hasn’t understood her obviously unhappy mother for a long time. She seems to live in another world. “I was 21 years old: My life was over,” Ethel says to herself. She can’t get anything else out of her. Even the loss of her husband and Marie’s father seems to be of no concern to Ethel. Marie doesn’t know what to do. Light is shed on the darkness when a young man from Ireland contacts her, claiming he’s found a ring with Ethel’s name on it…