For One More Day

'Every family is a ghost story ...' As a child, Charley Benetto was
told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but
you can't be both.' So he chooses his father, only to see him
disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades
later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by
alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits
rock bottom after discovering he won't be invited to his only
daughter's wedding. And he decides to take his own life. Charley
makes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But
as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing
discovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there,
and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened. What
follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for:
a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family
secrets and to seek forgiveness.