oh so the daughter came in, triggered by the phone call, from some unknown woman, and she is going to help him cope. but I’d have to go back and figure out who is leaving whom at the airport.. six months, a daughter, it doesn’t add up.

Yeah… it sucks. I’ve had it in my head for a while but have been having trouble writing.

You’re supposed to start with a sense that the guy’s wife has been away for a long time. He smells coffee, we know he doesn’t drink it, he goes downstairs, she’s not there. The housekeeper shows and there are some new clues: she has seen this before, she tosses the wife’s mail. She should call the daughter. Then we skip to the daughter and her partner, she’s gotten the call, boarding a plane to go home, doesn’t explain to her partner that her dad is totally unhinged from his wife disappearing (dead? ran off with someone else?). He goes through the same routine the next day — daughter is there to try to help figure out the problem.