Out Of Sight
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- Części 3
Most 25-year-olds talk about "relearning who you are" like it's some sort of mystical path that you can choose to follow. Usually barefoot, strewn with cushy blankets and crackling fires, cups of tea, scented candles, and heaps of quarter-life-crisis self help books. As if it's just a phase of life that you get to go through on the way to spiritual awakening and becoming your "best self".
For Sophie, it's more about learning who she really is for the very first time. After a devastating accident that leaves her to battle amnesia alone in the Rocky Mountains, Sophie finds herself trying to rebuild her life from scratch in a small lakeside town, unable to remember anything about herself or her past.
When puzzle pieces begin falling into place and she decides to knock of the door of who she used to be, she realizes that her yearlong absence was unnoticed by nearly everyone she thought held her dear. Stuck between the new life she's created with the people she's beginning to let in, and her family and the relationships of her past, Sophie must decide if leaving it all behind is really so wrong, after all.
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