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Lisa, my main character, does not know she needs to forgive.   For this reason, she believes that forgiveness cannot be truly achieved. As the story progresses, she comes to term with her past and who she truly held resentment against. Since she is a rational person and tends to view the world through cynism, she tends to not trust anyone, meaning it is hard for her to believe someone is truly sorry. This is due to her parents’ death at age six and clinging to science as absolute truth.

Anne, who is Lisa’s mentor, thinks that forgiving means carrying all the guilt and dealing with it. She is an over-achiever who is a Case officer, or someone who overseers different cases in the agency she works in as well. When her last and first case when terribly wrong, resulting in casualties, she decided to carry all the blame since she was the one who planned it all. She believes it was due to her faulty planning that this tragedy happened. She needs to come to terms with forgiving herself.

(Since this is so much fun, I’ll add another character!)

The supposedly-happy-go-lucky scientist, Moses, holds to the idea that forgiving is forgetting. He struggles with forgiving himself for starting a fire that burned down his house along with his stepmother and not being resentful to his father who distanced himself afterwards with work. Since his mother told him to smile no matter what, he tries his best to forget it all happened and make a joke about it if things get tough. Moses needs to face his past and move on, but not entirely forgetting about it.