After three years in prison, I returned home hoping for nothing more than to hug my father, but my stepmother opened the door and said, “He d!ed a year ago. This house is mine now.”

the bus to a storage facility in the city.

“Your father used to come here when he was already very sick,” he told me. “He said a son shouldn’t leave prison empty-handed.”

Storage Unit 108 sat at the end of a dusty hallway lined with rusted metal doors. The key turned effortlessly in the lock.

When I rolled up the metal door, I didn’t find old furniture or boxes of clothes.

I found a room full of evidence.

There were filing cabinets, envelopes, and folders labeled in black marker:

BANKS.