Growing up with undiagnosed autism and confronting her mother’s death at a young age, a woman struggles to understand herself and her family, but when her father commits an incomprehensible act, she is left tragically bewildered.
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Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic abuse, death, murder, suicide, animal cruelty, animal death, explicit language
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