An Exchange of Lives

My daughter has been kidnapped, and the kidnapper is asking for five million dollars as ransom.

I can just about scrounge the money together, but the kidnapper makes it clear that he wants a life in exchange for my daughter's.

He'll take the money and kill the person who brings it to him.

I smoke throughout the night, my eyes bloodshot as I try to think of something. Then, I fix my gaze on my mother, who is now senile and insane.