The Shape of a Family

Lisa Manoban is a woman who built her life on control.

Cold, calculated, and untouchable in the business world, she has no room for mistakes-especially not in her personal life. As a single mother, she raises her five-year-old daughter, Ella, with strict boundaries and carefully chosen words.

Including one lie, "Your mommy is just working far away."

Ella never questioned it.
She simply smiled, waited... and believed.

Sweet, kind, and full of warmth, Ella grows up with a heart big enough to love even the absence of someone she has never met.

Jennie Kim, on the other hand, lives a life filled with noise, laughter, and chaos. The youngest and only daughter among five siblings, she grew up surrounded by love-messy, loud, imperfect love. Despite the struggles of a simple life, Jennie carries warmth everywhere she goes, working as a waitress and part-time mascot just to help her family.

Until one ordinary afternoon,

A child runs.
A mother panics.
A stranger falls.

And in the middle of it all... A single word changes everything.

"Mommy!"

In a moment of innocence, Ella wraps her arms around a stranger and calls her the one thing she has been missing her whole life.

Now, Jennie is pretending.
Lisa is allowing it.
And Ella is believing every second of it.

But what happens when pretend starts to feel real and no one wants to let go?