Educating Gramps

Halim never knew his father — just the rumours: a drowning, a disappearance, a past no one wants to talk about.

When he signs up for a nursing home buddy program, it’s purposeful. He’s hunting for clues — anything to impress his girlfriend’s well-connected father. He picks Lim Soo Hock, a sharp-tongued, bigoted old man, believing he’s the closest thing to a grandfather he’ll ever have.

He didn’t sign up to be Lim’s teacher. Or his grandson.

But as Halim pushes back against Lim’s prejudices, the old man fires back with hard truths — about survival, silence, and the lies families tell to shield each other — and themselves — from the past.

Then a medical crisis confirms a painful truth — no shared blood, and Halim faces a question he never expected: Can you choose family, or does family choose you?

Halim has grown fond of the old man. He can’t adopt a grandfather, but will Lim adopt him as a grandson? And does Lim have to?

What unfolds is a quiet excavation of intergenerational truths — the debts we inherit, the secrets we keep alive, and the fragile art of forgiving forward.

Witty, unflinching, and deeply moving, Educating Gramps is a story of the bonds we forge — not from scratch, but from whatever’s left.

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