Joanna Lawson arrives at Mercy Creek Medical on a cold Tuesday in January to deliver her baby alone. Her boyfriend, Logan, abandoned her seven months earlier in July when she first revealed her unexpected pregnancy. She spends hours in a cold labor room enduring intense contractions while keeping up a practiced lie for the hospital staff that her partner is simply running late. At seventeen minutes past three in the afternoon, she finally gives birth to a healthy baby boy and feels a deep sense of relief after months of quiet suffering. The on call physician, Doctor Robert Wright, enters the room to check on the newborn but suddenly freezes in tears upon seeing the child. He recognizes a distinct crescent shaped birthmark below the ear of the baby and begs Joanna to reveal the name of the absent father. When she hesitantly names Logan Wright, the heartbroken doctor reveals that Logan is his estranged son who left home years ago. Robert explains that his own wife Rose passed away eight months prior while waiting for Logan to return, making this unexpected grandchild a deeply emotional discovery.