Dark Burdens
"Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens..."
What do you do when all you find in the light is more darkness? When home gives no warmth and even the stars feel distant? We walk that line between collapse and courage, repeating the past or finding the present. The rope is short when those called to protect choose themselves instead.
Synopsis
Somewhere in Oregon during the summer of 1990, two teenage girls, Ashley and Taylor, navigate the scars left by their families. They are drawn into the dark world of Logan, a troubled older boy whose past threatens to pull them all deeper into the shadows. Together, they face difficult truths about themselves, their families, and the costs of sacrifice, finding that sometimes the greatest light comes from the courage to face the darkness head-on.
Taylor and Ashley walk the same winding road, their friendship a steady glow against the night. They fill the silence with laughter, with rebellion, with the quiet hope that growing up will be their saviour. But moments in our past reach out like a claw's shadow.
Ashley and Taylor's Mixtape
Logan escaped the wreckage of his family, but the rope still pulls him back. His home, his past, it ties him to a ship already sinking. In the trailer that once held safety, unfinished work waits. He'll never reach the surface until he lets go.
This is a story of putting yourself back together for those who come after. To believe that hope is not in vain, that love bears weight. Through the cracks, light shines into dark spaces. It is during the night that stars shine bright.
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