The breakthrough came during a session with Dr. Voss, on a rainy Tuesday afternoon when the safe house felt particularly isolated and the weight of everything Emma was carrying seemed especially heavy.

They had been talking about the children, about Emma's fears for their future, about her guilt over what they had endured. And then Dr. Voss asked a question that stopped Emma cold.

"What do you want, Emma? Not what do you think you should want, or what other people expect you to ...