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Illie Hicks and her designated earth father, Cyrus, show up for her to receive her assignment for life on earth. Cyrus is nervous about his own assignment, but Illie is determined for them both to go to earth together. When Illie receives her assignment, she discovers that her parents’ lives will be much harder than she imagined. The worst of it all? Illie is assigned to be a stillborn child. After careful thought, Illie decides to accept this assignment, and convinces her father to accept his. Illie then joins her parents as an unseen angel in the aftermath of her failed birth, working to keep them together until Eva (Illie’s mother) successfully gives birth to Phoebe Hicks (Illie’s baby sister). After Phoebe has grown a few years, Cyrus and Eva take Phoebe to Illie’s grave. There, all members of their family share a meal together, Illie unseen but certainly present.