Kalinda shultz

Valeria’s mother left at a very young age, leaving her grandmother to raise her. As the years go on, Valeria’s few memories of her mother begin to fade away. She always wondered how anyone could up and leave her own child. As Valeria grows older, she wants nothing more than to look her mother in the eyes. She hesitantly makes the request to her grandmother about contacting her mother. This causes turmoil in the once calm household.

Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist. Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents - both devout Catholics - had felt so 'shamed' by their son's illegitimate birth that they hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for 13 years. Apart from a few admissions to hospital as a result of his 'imprisonment', Steve remained in the coal cellar of the family home where he was deprived of daylight, his childhood, school and human contact until he'd reached his teenage years.