My son applauded when his wife cut the TV cord in my $875,000 home

In a lived-in two-story American home, the first three takes stay in the same cream-walled living room with pale square ceramic tile, lace curtains, an open wooden door onto a blue sky and yard, a black TV on a low wooden stand, red geraniums, a broken black cord, and the mother's chair and ceramic coffee mug. A polished daughter-in-law rips out the cord and insults the soap opera, her husband applauds, and the fifty-eight-year-old American widow says only that she paid for the set. The $875,000 home belongs solely to her; the couple has been living there after a business collapse. A sealed bank envelope appears among the daughter-in-law's possessions. The retired school librarian calls a locksmith for her private office, the post office to protect her mail, the bank's fraud department, and an attorney. What that envelope contains and what she did with the ownership record...