Synopsis

The news arrived like a soft, unsettling draft. Her mother was considering marriage – to someone met online. The words hung in the air, fragile yet heavy with implication. A quiet desperation began to bloom within her, a feeling of displacement and unease. It wasn't the man himself; she hadn’t even met him. It was the suddenness of it all, the way her mother seemed to be constructing a future on a foundation of pixels and profiles. A knot tightened in her stomach. She found herself searching