Even a miracle won’t save her.
Piper is a teenager who is approached by two younger children at the tip. They pass on an old red suitcase that they believe is really a magic case. Piper accepts the case with some reluctance but is also curious as to what it is and why it’s been lent to her.
Soon after, her mum is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Right on cue, the case responds and produces life saving treatment that is otherwise unobtainable.
All goes well, at first, and her mum starts to respond. Just at this point the treatment fails catastrophically and within days she is fighting for her life.
Piper is now faced with the prospect of living her life alone and decides to discard the case. Just when all seems lost, a sequence of events is put in place that might just save Piper and her mum – if only there is still time for the desperate plan to bear fruit.
“No sentence of death could ever have been clearer. The wonder drug had failed. Mary’s blood cancer had countered, in its stride, the finest treatment known to man, the very best that specialists had ever seen, and in its place it had left a patient who would be lucky to see the end of the month without an absolute miracle occurring. He realised ruefully that the miracle had just failed.”
