Ben’s Birthday

Ben is nine years old today. Thus, his father lets him choose three sweets on a trip to the supermarket. His childlike innocence is clouded when he observes his father being accosted by a stranger at the supermarket checkout shortly afterwards. Little Ben doesn't understand much from a distance, but his father's ethnicity seems to play a role. Little Ben doesn't know exactly what has happened, but for the first time he realizes that something has