NEVER BEEN TO ME

In 2021, Billie (45 y.o) caught her (17 y.o) daughter, Drew, about to 'send nude' a guy online. This incident caused a serious rift in their relationship. Drew felt like she can never live up to her mom's perfect standard, while Billie felt like she failed to teach her daughter well. To repair their relationship, Billie gave Drew the manuscript she's been working on as a gift to her daughter's 18th birthday. The manuscript contained Billie's journey on how she conceived Drew. Banned online and confined to reading, Drew entered her mom's world in 2004, when a 26-year-old Billie was working as a life coach. Contented with her advocacies, Billie loves and values herself that she felt already complete as a single woman. Unbeknownst to Billie, she has been living in a protective bubble as a defense mechanism to protect her heart. Then her bubble began to crack when Dean, a gorgeous executive, came into the picture. He saw Billie as a mystery who looked at him as a human being instead of an object of affection. As he found himself relaxing more around Billie, he couldn't help wanting to solve the mystery surrounding Billie's self-control, but would he still want her without the protective bubble? The protective bubble betrayed Billie as soon as she met Jake. With Billie's vulnerability exposed, Drew entered the world of her mom in 1993, when iphones were nonexistent. Drew followed her mom's life as a 17 y.o college student hungry for love and affection. Drew realized that her mom is not perfect after all. As Billie went on her journey in different timelines and situations, her ultimate desire is to teach her daughter a powerful lesson - that life always comes in a full circle, and only by making a difficult decision can the circle be closed, either from the inside, trapped with your past, or from the outside, toward an unknown future. Torn between perfection and redemption, Billie's choice is a bittersweet complication.