What Stayed

As a child, Elena experienced things she could never explain: unsettling encounters and moments that left her questioning what was real. Her mother knew more than she ever shared, but as Elena grew older, she learned to leave those memories behind.

Years later, her mother disappears without explanation.

Elena returns to the apartment where she grew up, hoping to find a clue to what happened. Nothing appears disturbed. Her mother’s belongings are still there, as though she never intended to leave.

But the longer Elena stays, the more the past begins to feel uncomfortably close.

Finding out what happened to her mother may mean confronting what Elena has spent years trying to forget.