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After returning home from an boarding school in Colorado, a young girl is confronted with the unsettling realization that nothing feels the same. Friends have changed, family dynamics feel unfamiliar, and the place she once called home no longer fits the person she has become.
Told through the present moment and reflections on her time away, Drifting traces the quiet ways independence, distance, and time reshape identity and relationships. As she looks back on the experiences that changed her while trying to reconnect with a life that moved on without her, the story explores belonging, growth, and the feeling of returning to somewhere familiar only to realize you are no longer the same.
Drifting is a coming-of-age story about change, separation, and learning how to exist between who you were and who you are becoming