does Tom exist?

I was wondering the same thing? Tom was born eight months prior to his mother being executed for killing Keven. In the beginning when Keven and Jody hold up the mini-market and the cashier tells Jody you won"t like what's in the safe and then you here a bang, well, I had thought that she shot the cashier but she couldn't have because she experiences what is in the safe. The safe being a metaphor for the box shaped cabin in the woods. In jody's perfect life she would never have met Kevin. Jody did go on and on about not ever wanting to be a mother. And Tom never kept his mother's locket.

I think it's probable that Jody never had him. I think if she did, it would have showed her pregnant or him as a little boy playing in the sand in the last scene when she and her mother are walking with the father's ashes. It focused only on the two women at the end, leading me to believe there was no son, no Tom. That's just my opinion, of course.

I thought this move was excellent! I had no idea going in that it would be so good. I never heard of it and it's 8 years old!