Ted and Marina Diamond set out to build the ideal military family — disciplined, close, unbreakable — but years of upheaval, rigid rules, and quiet violence fray the bonds and breed secrets. A grandchild’s curiosity finally forces a reckoning.
Why it’s here: Matriarch Marina reckons, in her later years, with the true cost of the ‘perfect’ family she helped build — an older woman’s long view of love and damage.
