Hands that Make, Hands that Break

From the outside, Ainsley Briar is every parent's dream: talented, obedient, graceful. But inside, she is suffocating beneath the impossible standards set by her perfection-obsessed parents, Elizabeth and Sebastian, who see her not as a daughter, but as a project to sculpt.



Her days are orchestrated down to the minute. Her thoughts are monitored. Her dreams are dismissed.



Behind closed doors, Ainsley begins to fracture. Her identity, her very sense of self, is buried under years of praise that felt more like pressure and silence that screamed.



When a rare connection with a classmate awakens something long-buried in her, Ainsley starts to imagine a life beyond control. One where she’s allowed to exist as she is.