Broken Bird
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MatureOngoing2h 41m
Last published Thu, Apr 9, 2020
Silence stifles love. Time murders it. Genevieve Roux, a disillusioned painter trying to make ends meet, finds herself at the focal point of a perpetual crossroads, suspended, stagnant, directionless. When Sting enters her life, she must maneuver an unknown path in his wake, replete with the pitfalls consequential of an astronomical ascent to stardom, until she contrives a path of her own. Secrecy, fear, vulnerability- the hands which move time.
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