From the outside, Diana Keough's family looked like the kind everyone admired. 

Her father was a successful attorney. The family sat in the same pew every Sunday. There were six children, sporting events, family vacations, and a life that looked, from the outside, exactly as it should.

Then, in 1988, her father was diagnosed with AIDS.

People often describe that moment as the one that changed everything. But that's not quite true. It was the moment everything hidden began to come into the light.

Trained as a journalist, Keough did what came naturally: she picked up a tape recorder. Over the next several years, she recorded more than one hundred hours of conversations with her parents and siblings, never imagining those tapes would one day become the heart of a podcast.

What she couldn't have known then was where the story would lead—not just to long-buried family secrets, but to unexpected grace. To a father transformed near the end of his life. To a mother whose heart was changed by an unlikely friendship with a woman awaiting execution on Texas's death row. And to the discovery that redemption often begins where no one expects to find it.

A co-production between Audible Originals & Campside Media