The Mothers

Late one night in Chicago, law student Nadia receives a phone call that her father, Robert, has been critically injured in a weightlifting accident. Her classmate, Zach, helps her pack and drives her to O’Hare Airport for a flight to Southern California. Upon arrival at Scripps Mercy Hospital, Nadia finds her father in a hospital bed, and he begins to cry when he sees her. Shortly after, Aubrey arrives at the hospital to provide support.

After Robert is released, Nadia moves into his house to care for him during recovery. One day, Luke, now Aubrey’s husband, stops by with food. Nadia confronts him about their secret, accusing him of telling his parents about her pregnancy. A flashback confirms that the Sheppards did know about the pregnancy and provided the money to terminate the pregnancy.

While Nadia cares for her father, Aubrey corresponds online with Russell Miller, the soldier she met on the beach with Nadia before her wedding. She visits Nadia and talks to her about the difficulty she is having in trying to become pregnant. She hasn’t visited a fertility doctor yet, but privately she feels certain that it must be “her fault” because she knows that Luke already got someone pregnant in the past, and that woman terminated a pregnancy.