Set in the early 2000s in the small, rust-worn town of Millbrook, Pennsylvania, the story centers on y/n, a girl growing up fractured by forces she never chose. At home, she lives under the weight of an abusive household where love is unpredictable and silence is survival. At school, she is relentlessly bullied—mocked for her thrift-store clothes, her guarded nature, the sadness she can’t quite hide. By the time she reaches her teens, y/n has learned to expect pain and to distrust kindness, convinced that broken is her permanent state.