Anna spent five years in prison for a crime she did not commit: throughout all that time, only her father believed in her innocence, while her husband and mother-in-law cut off all contact with her 

After being released from prison, Anna learned that her father had been dead for a year. When she went to the cemetery, the caretaker handed her a strange bundle, saying, “Before he died, your father told me to give this to you” 

Anna had spent five years behind bars for a crime she had not committed. During all that time, only her father believed her and wrote in his letters that the truth would one day come out. The others had long decided that it was easier to label her guilty and forget about her.

When the gates of the correctional colony closed behind her, Anna stood alone on an empty road. In her hands was an old bag, in her pocket a release paper, and a complete lack of understanding of where to go next. She thought of only one thing: her father’s house, and the hope that someone would be waiting for her there.

But no one was waiting for her at home.

On the porch stood her husband and mother-in-law. They acted as if the house belonged to them. The mother-in-law did not even try to hide her contempt. Calmly, she said that the father had died a year earlier, that he had called for Anna before his death, but who would need a criminal. The house now belonged to them, and Anna had better leave and never come back.

The door slammed shut sharply and finally, as if crossing out her last hopes.

Anna stood in the yard for a long time, then went to the place where she felt her father might still be close — the cemetery. She searched for his grave but could not find it.

Then the caretaker approached her, an elderly man named Richard. He spoke quietly, as if afraid of being overheard.

He said there was no grave. That the father had deliberately arranged it that way before his death. He had come to him, handed him a bundle, and asked him to give it to his daughter if she ever came there. And he had ordered him to hide it far away from those who lived in his house.

Anna took the bundle with trembling hands. The towel was old, with embroidery she remembered from childhood. When she unfolded the fabric, her fingers went cold and her breath caught.

What her father had hidden from the mother-in-law and the husband changed everything  The continuation of the story was told in the first comment 

Anna held the bundle with trembling hands. Inside were documents, recordings of conversations, copies of transfers, and a flash drive. All of it proved that she had been framed and sent to prison.

And the main culprit in this story turned out to be her own husband. Her father had managed to uncover the truth, but he paid for it with his life.

Anna went to court.

The investigation did not take long. The evidence was too precise to be ignored. The ex-husband was arrested right in the courtroom.

The mother-in-law was thrown out of the house she had so confidently controlled, and the property was returned to its rightful owner.

Anna received a large financial compensation for the years she spent in prison. But no amount of money could bring her father back or erase the years that had been taken from her.

Anna stood in the empty house and understood that justice does exist, but it comes too late. And sometimes its price is higher than a person can bear.