Turning life around
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When things go south in your life, well... it's time to actually go South.
Beatrice leaves her boyfriend while they're on a break and heads to a small town in Virginia.
There, she moves in the beach house her grandfather left behind and reconnects with old friends.
As she relives the memories of her childhood, she finds fragments of her old self and holds on to them.
Beatrice soon begins to realize that the missing piece to her life might just be here. But with that realization comes inevitable change...
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