A man, Mr. Johnson, returns after ten years abroad as a successful tech developer and shareholder, planning to take a year off to be with his family after an upcoming bidding conference. Meanwhile, a woman pleads with another woman, Sibyl, the mother of a sick twelve-year-old girl named Jenny, for $30,000 to complete an urgent, life-saving surgery. Sibyl, who is divorced from the girl's late father, angrily refuses and calls the child a jinx, violently throwing the pleading woman out of her house. Mr. Johnson, unaware of this crisis, heads home alone to reunite with his own family.