In order to save his life, a grief-stricken mother must simultaneously rely upon and fight the medical system that caused her son’s brain injury, all the while learning to let go of the boy he would have been and accept the boy he has become.

Ooooohhh.. getting juicier with every post!

Seriously though. I'm immensely grateful for your feedback @dpg and @gilgamesh. Thank you very much. You're really helping me get clear within my process and on what matters to the story and the audience.

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After hospital malpractice leaves her only son permanently brain-injured, an alcoholic mother struggles with her addiction as she tries to come to terms with her son's grim prognosis.

>>> a nice juicy piece of irony

I love stories that tease out and build to an ironical denouement. It takes skill and insight to pull it off convincingly.

But I don't suggest working it into the logline because you are, in effect, giving away the ending, the solution to the dramatic problem.