Alison draws and sketches and storyboards, hoping to find a way that it didn’t have to happen the way it did, and when the truck inevitably careens around the shoulder of the highway she tells herself it’s just pictures and memory.

This is the bad ending: she is always the only one left and she has to give her father an Odyssey that makes it worth it and wonder where she went wrong, but she is alive and reasonably happy.

But the worse outcome, maybe, is that his suicide had nothing to do with her, and nothing to do with her mother filing for divorce, and there was nothing anyone could have done to change the end.