An Unfinished Life
Synopsis

Jean Gilkyson works in a dry-cleaning shop and lives with her boyfriend, Roy, in his trailer in Iowa. Her ten-year-old daughter, Griff, is relieved when she and her mother finally drive away alone, determined to start a new life. With nowhere else to turn, Jean takes Griff back to her hometown in Wyoming, a place Jean never told her about before.

Unable to deal with the guilt she feels from the night when her young husband, Griffin, died in a car accident while she was driving, Jean ran. Griffin's father, Einar, can't accept his son's death, nor can he forgive Jean for the accident. Einer is alone now, except for his friend Mitch. The two old men have become each other's family. When Jean and Griff arrive at the ranch, Einar's emotions and temper flare. Slowly, as he learns to love a granddaughter he never knew existed, he is forced to come to terms with the destructive grief that he harbors. With grace and determination, and driven by the need to salvage her own young life, Griff unites these suffering adults in the hopes of creating two things she has never known—a real home and a stable family.

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