Just Breathe
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In a small town outside Milwaukee many years ago, a woman haunted by her ghosts lost her mind and tried to kill her daughter Nova, and her best friend Alex. In self-defense, Nova killed her mother and was sent away out of town somewhere where she could get the support she needed. Its been 15 years now and Nova is returning back to her home town,nack to her childhood home, getting ready to prepare it to be sold so she can move away and leave the past behind her. But unlike her mother, the past dosen't stay 6 feet under. As her and Alex stick together and try to finish the house for the sale, Nova's past keeps coming back in the form of flahsbacks and memories. But Alex is always there and she always gives her the same advice:Just breathe.
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