When Sara becomes increasingly suspicious of what her husband Mark is doing behind her back, she crosses every previously established boundary to find the evidence she needs to prove her suspicions.
And when Sara lays her eyes on a seemingly ordinary-looking family photo, she spots something that leaves her with no other option than to file for divorce…
But what did Sara see in this photo? What could be so bad that she feels forced to divorce her husband? What had Mark been hiding from Sara and what would this mean for the future of their family?
Sara grabs the crumpled-up piece of paper on which Mark wrote down the password to his computer. She hoped it wouldn’t come to this, but felt like she had noother choice. She has to see what is on these photos. She had to know what Mark had been hiding from her...
After a little bit of searching, Sara finds the folder she was looking for. She takes a deep breath and opens it. A wave of surprise and confusion hits her. This was not what she expected to find. She clicks on one of the photos and then she suddenly sees it…
She can’t believe it. She never thought Mark was capable of something like this. How could he do this to their family?! Tears are starting to stream down her face…
But to better understand Sara’s extreme reaction, a bit of backstory is required...
At first glance, the Millers seem to be a relatively normal American family consisting of Mark and Sara, and their two young children. But while the family may seem normal now, they definitely haven’t always been. A lot went on beneath the surface nobody knew about…
Sara has been together with Mark since she was only 15 years old and thus the pair have kind of grown up together it seems. After they met, They got really close really quickly and there was a good reason for that...
Sara first met Mark when she and a couple of friends went to hang out at an old warehouse where a lot of young people were squatting. This was a local spot that often had parties going under the police’s radar and was thus very popular in the small town.
By that point, Mark himself had been living at the warehouse for only a couple of weeks. When Sara and her friend, along with some other people, arrived, he was very quiet at first and didn’t look for contact. He sat alone outside of the building most of the time that night.
The other squatters that had lived in the warehouse much longer told Sara and her friends that this had been the case ever since he got there. They weren’t a fan of his antisocial behavior but weren’t going to send a 16-year old away who had no place else to go...
The more time Sara was spending at the warehouse and the later it got that night, the more interested she got in Mark. Something about his looks and mysterious demeanor seemed to really draw her in. She felt like she couldn't keep her eyes off him and made her move...
Sara decided to take Mark apart and away from the group to see if he would become more talkative when he was one on one. The warehouse was pretty big so they had a lot of space to just wander around and talk. And Sara wasn’t disappointed by her making this move...
When it was just the 2 of them, Mark quickly dropped his shy demeanor and he actually seemed to be really interested in Sara. They had a good and long conversation, all while Mark didn’t reveal much about himself. But he did give Sara a little bit of information…
Apparently, Mark relocated to this town from somewhere across the county and had no intention of ever going back. But he didn’t want to say why this was or where he came from exactly. At that time, Sara didn’t ask more questions about it, but maybe she should have...
When Sara got home, she could not stop thinking about Mark. He didn’t leave her mind for days on end and wanted to see him again as soon as possible. They started to meet up often and quickly fell in love. But it would prove to be far from a perfect relationship…
Sara eventually even took Mark home to meet her family and her parents also quickly took a liking to the shy, but polite young man. But they were caught off guard when Mark explained his situation and knew that had to do something to help him out.
Sara’s parents didn’t like the idea of a 16-year-old boy squatting in an old warehouse with a load of strangers. After a lot of deliberation and Sara convincing them she really loved Mark, they made a big decision that would save Mark from his precarious position…
They took Mark into their home and in the time that Mark lived with Sara at her parent's house, their relationship really started to blossom. Soon after moving in, Mark found a side job and was able to afford to go to photography school. Something he had always dreamed of doing.
When he finally got his photography degree about 3 years later, he was gifted a great camera by Sara’s parents and with it, he quickly found a lot of work as a freelance photographer, building quite a good reputation for himself.
He started to earn increasingly good money and it didn’t take long for the pair to be able to afford a down payment on a small apartment in which they could live and start building their life together. Everything seemed to be fantastic for the young couple. But was this actually the case?
The couple were slowly building up their lives together over the next couple of years, there were still some things that we're starting to bug Sara. Something that Sara has had trouble with from the very first moment that she met Mark up to the present day...
By this time she and Mark had been together for years, but he was still very secretive about his past and it was starting to worry Sara more and more. What could he be hiding from her or what was so difficult for him to talk about?
Sara had asked him to tell her more on multiple occasions but was always met by the same kind of reluctant responses. Mark claims that he doesn’t have a family anymore and that it hurts too much to talk about everything. He just wants to forget about it all...
At this point, Sara had just accepted it as the reality of the situation. Mark had been this way ever since she knew him and he was probably never going to change. But luckily, this secretiveness was one of the few flaws Mark had in her eyes and she could live with it. At least for now...
When the pair had been in a relationship for about 7 years, had their first child together, and now had another one on the way, they decided they were ready to get married. Sara hoped that she would maybe finally meet some of Mark’s family at the wedding…
But, maybe not to Sara’s surprise but definitely to her disappointment, Mark had only invited his friends to the wedding. And it was also only the friends he had met in the time that she knew him. Not a single person was there that had known Mark from before he moved to the city at the age of 16.
But overall, this didn’t really bother Sara that much. They had a great wedding with or without his family and they had it fairly good together in general. Not just emotionally or romantically, but also financially. Mark was making some big steps in his professional career.
In all the time that had passed since Mark graduated as a photographer, his reputation had only gotten bigger and better and he now had a plethora of well-off customers willing to pay him handsomely for his services. And what also helped, was that Mark was very willing to make “any” kind of photos…
Sara was of course very happy for Mark personally but also that this success meant that money was never a concern for the growing family. But there were some aspects of Mark's work that Sara got less and less comfortable with the more he did it...
The first thing was that Mark often flew all across the country for his work, which meant that he could be away multiple days leaving Sara alone with their son and later their baby daughter. Sara was a full-time mom at the time so she could handle it, but missing Mark so often became increasingly difficult for her.
And on top of that, Sara also wasn’t all too happy with the kind of pictures Mark was making at that time. Most of his assignments were fairly unspectacular like big sporting events or photoshoots with models. But some other photography jobs were of a very different nature...
Mark was getting a lot of assignments where he was shooting photos for magazines that could be classified as a bit more risque. Sara had seen some of these pictures and she couldn’t help but feel someone uncomfortable with Mark making these kinds of photos.
Sara felt jealous and sometimes even a bit insecure about this all. She always heard stories about what could happen between photographers and their models. She knew Mark was not like that but still found it difficult to shake the thought of the possibility...
But even though Sara’s worries were not going away, she felt like they were not serious or significant enough for her to complain to Mark about it. These photoshoots often paid particularly well and the positives far outweigh the negatives for her. Plus, she still trusted Mark...
With two kids around the house and her being unable to work because she has to take care of them, it means they can’t just turn down assignments because she doesn’t like those kinds of photos. And this is especially true after one day something very unfortunate happens...
Like she does every week, Sara is buying the weekly grocery items and some other things that caught her eye at the supermarket. When she went to pay for them, she knew she spent a lot more than normal, but she still never expected that this would happen at the register...
When she attempted to pay, her card declined. The machine stated that the reason for this was “insufficient funds”. Sara was stunned. This had never happened before and she knew there had to still be plenty of money on the card. She tried it a few more times but nothing changed.
Sara had to put the cart with groceries away and decided to call the bank, asking for an explanation. They quickly checked the records and found that just that morning all the money in their spending account had been withdrawn. And it was withdrawn by Mark without stating a reason...
Mark is currently on one of his frequent trips, so Sara immediately calls him to ask for an explanation. Mark tells her that he had found a great investment opportunity after talking to some people at the photoshoot and that he quickly needed the cash before somebody else beat him to it.
The only way he could get the money quick enough was by taking it out of their spending account. He had already put in an order for some money to be transferred back into it from their savings account, but it hadn’t gone through yet. A good explanation, but it still struck Sara as odd...
Mark had never shown an interest in investing before. They had always had the money for it, but Mark didn’t want to have to constantly be busy with it and Sara had no clue about how she could manage something like that. Besides, there was something else really strange about this “investment”...
All Mark could tell Sara about it was that it’s a start-up in a very early stage and that not a lot was publicly known about it. This meant that there wasn’t anything about the company published online or somewhere else, according to Mark. This set off a lot of alarm bells for Sara...
After this moment, Sara became a lot more vigilant about the things Mark told her. The money going missing would turn out to be the beginning of a lot of other strange events and finds that started making Sara more suspicious and worried about what Mark was doing.
Sara started noticing that some of Mark's travel stories didn’t add up. He always told her that he flew all over the country and almost never to the same place. But when Sara “coincidentally” oversaw Mark flying history, she noticed he went to one particular airport awfully much. Why would he be lying about that?
Could he have a customer there that Mark didn’t want Sara to know about? But what could be so special about that customer then? Or could there be something else going on? Maybe something not related to photography at all…
What also started to happen more and more, was that when Mark actually was home, he seemed less interested in being romantic or doing other things with Sara. While this used to always be one of the first things on his mind when he got home from a long trip...
At first, Sara thought this might just be part of being in a relationship for a long time. But when she talked to some of her friends about it, they seemed a lot more worried and the only explanation they could come up with was Sara’s worst fear…
With Sara becoming almost completely engulfed in her worries and doubts, something happened that seemingly pushes her over the edge. Something that seems to tie all the pieces of information she found so far together and left her with only 1 explanation...
Late at night, when Mark was on another one of his trips, the home phone rang. But when Sara went to answer it and stated her name, the line was immediately disconnected by the caller. Sara found this strange and quickly noted down the unfamiliar number.
After trying to call the number back a couple of times and getting disconnected before the second ring every time, Sara went to google with the phone number to see if she could maybe find out more about who was calling her at this time of night and made a shocking discovery...
Sara quickly discovered that she was unable to trace the exact number due to it not appearing in any search she performed. But when she did find out was that the area code match with the city Mark flew out to so often! This was the final straw for Sara...
She had always made a point that she wanted to respect Mark’s privacy as much as possible, but enough was enough. There were too many red flags and she had to find out what was going on. So Sara went to the only place she could think of to get answers...
Sara went to try and log in on Mark’s home computer. It has a password that Mark had never revealed to her. He probably assumes that Sara doesn’t know it, but months ago she had found a crumpled piece of paper on the ground on which it was written.
She unlocks the PC and is immediately confronted by countless neatly organized folders full of pictures. For a second Sara is overwhelmed by the sheer volume, but then she composes herself. She knows exactly where to start searching...
Sara has the recently updated list with Mark's flying history saved on her phone and starts searching for photos dating from a couple of days after Mark's trips to the city he so often visited. That same city Sara had gotten a call from the previous night. But Sara was surprised by what she found...
Going from old to new, Sara couldn’t find any photos from these specific periods. Sara knew that one of the first things Mark would do after returning from a job was to put the new photos in this computer. So that must mean he didn’t go on these trips to take photos at all...
But then Sara finally stumbles across a folder she was looking for. It was dated just after Mark's most recent trip to the city. With her fingers shaking in anticipation, Sara clicked open the folder. She felt like she was prepared to see anything. Anything, but not this…
All of the photos that are stored in the folder are of Mark. But not just of Mark alone, but of him with another family! Another wife and two children! Sara had never seen these people before and couldn’t believe what she had just discovered. “It can’t be true…”
She knew that Mark had been up to something, but she could have never guessed that he would have another family on the side. When? How? Why? Did that family know about her? Could this potentially explain everything? Sara went into a blind panic...