As the door creaks open and the weight of silence settles in, a father's weary footsteps echo through a house that once sang with laughter. His return is not met with joy, but with the quiet sorrow of children who have learned to live with absence. Their eyes carry questions they’re too young to ask, and their hearts hold stories he wasn't there to hear. In the space between them lies all the time lost—birthday candles blown out alone, scraped knees without his hand to hold, and whispered wishes for one more bedtime story. Though he is home, something fragile has changed. This is not just a homecoming—it is a reckoning of love, distance, and the silent grief of growing up without.
