The Family Project: a college assignment that sounded harmless on the syllabus and now feels like a loaded question. You and whoever you pick get paired up, handed a plastic bin full of folded slips, and told to “build a life” based on what you draw: marriage status, kids (if any), and a tax bracket that decides what kind of stability you’re allowed to pretend you have. Then you’re graded on how you handle it all, like love and rent and sleep deprivation fit neatly into a rubric.
They meet under fluorescent lights and too many machine beeps, all carrying something heavier than they know how to say out loud. What starts as reluctant company turns into something deeper as six teenagers navigate illness, anger, fear, and the dangerous habit of caring too much.
After a shoulder injury sends Brooks Callahan back to his hometown, he expects rest, rehab, and peace and quiet. Instead, he finds a young single mom and her daughter living in his parents’ guesthouse. Y/n has somehow become part of the family while he was gone, and the longer Brooks is home, the harder it becomes to ignore her, her daughter, and the life waiting for him there.