Ellie, a single mother caring for her son and strict grandmother, never expected to find her childhood sweater at a laundromat — not 20 years after her mother vanished. The tiny embroidery of her name unraveled long-buried memories and a truth she was never meant to know.

Grandma had always insisted Ellie’s mother abandoned her, but when Ellie discovered the sweater had recently been donated by a woman who claimed the seamstress was still searching for her daughter, everything changed.Confronting her grandmother revealed painful lies — Grandma had taken Ellie and disappeared, leaving her mother behind. When Ellie tried to leave with her son to search for answers, her grandmother threatened to keep the child. But Ellie made her escape.