You spend the entire evening preparing a quiet birthday surprise for your husband, Dominic Hayes—his favorite meal, a cake, and a few carefully chosen gifts waiting on the table. But when he finally comes home late from a long, frustrating day at work, exhaustion and anger get the better of him, and he snaps at the one person who had only been trying to make him smile. In the silence that follows, Dominic is forced to confront the damage a single moment of misplaced anger can cause.