Tangled paths

She’s the perfect daughter.

The top student.

The girl who never falls apart—

until she does. Quietly.



Back in India, her future’s already chosen.

Here, in California, she’s trying to remember what it feels like to want something.

To want herself.



But how do you fight for a life you’re not sure you deserve?

How do you open up

when silence is the only thing that ever protected you?



In the middle of art, anxiety, and almost-love,

she’s about to learn:

some people don’t leave—

even when you beg them to