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"Soft Places to Land" follows Mara as she stumbles through the messy, unpredictable, and often humiliating process of getting over someone. One day, she's convinced she's fine. Empowered, even. The next, she's spiraling over an old photo, replaying every mistake, every moment, every 'what if'.
This isn't a polished, graceful heartbreak story. It's about the cringe-worthy, unspoken realities. The late-night deep dives into an ex's social media, the irrational justifications, and the way grief sneaks up on you in grocery store aisles and familiar songs.
It's about the things no one warns you about, but everyone secretly endures. The world teaches us to chase love like it's the end goal. But maybe what we really need isn't another person to hold us together; it's the ability to be our own soft place to land.
And for Mara, that means unlearning everything she thought she knew about love, healing, and herself.