Joe-Wayne Watts is a young, exhausted, and stressed-out new father with an equally young and exhausted wife. He and Carrie have just brought home a precious new baby and been dealt two unexpected and devastating blows. But things have a way of working out, and the Watts family moves on and copes with their lot in life. Their daughter Alyson is nurtured and adored, and they are generous and well thought of members of their small community. Was that only made possible because of the night Joe-Wayne said he was running to the store for a package of diapers? Where he went and what he returned with changed the course of everything. If anyone knew it would shatter this perfect portrait, and not just for the Watts family. There are others whose lives would be destroyed if they knew what the result had been of Joe-Wayne's late-night errand.