Trauma is one of the most challenging things a human has to go through in their life. What's even more unfortunate is the truth that you never frankly recover from it, or worse, you never know if you had one if you've been repressing your feelings, emotions, and thoughts, only to seem like a happier person for everyone around you.

That's the life for Vada, a person who, for the first time in their life, has to go through the hardest experiences in their life, where they don't know how it ends. Stuck in a school bathroom while outside, thousands of screaming voices are silenced by the sounds of gunshots firing from a person to whom life doesn't matter. In those few moments, you genuinely rethink your life and beg for another chance at it. But when you get it, does it matter when there are people out there who didn't?

In so many different ways, this film shows an aspect of a person's point of view of how truly damaging one experience can be to a human being. From the beginning of, what one can say, the healing process, Vada is experiencing numbness, the absolute nothingness of what she had gone through. It's one of those feelings where you want it to be an awful dream and when the situation makes it unbelievable for one to hear. They spend their days in their room, doing nothing but try to feel better, where feeling better isn't an option.

Next is trying to move on or lead a normal life where normal doesn't seem like it. When they find a friend, spend time with her, trying to have fun after the sheer horror both of them have gone through; as soon as it ends, it looks like you're back at the beginning. Even going back to school doesn't help when every other class is learning how to protect themselves if the same situation occurs, bringing back the painful memories of such a disastrous day, trying to beat every passing second with drugs, alcohol, or pure insanity to just, for once, feel a bit different.

Three: Accepting and Healing. When they finally get to spend time with their father, screaming their pain from the top of their lungs out into the world; when they finally tell their sister that they were never mad at her, only worried for her safety; when they finally reveal their therapist how they feel and what they think; when they finally promise their mother that no lie should ever slip their tongue ever again and trust them with their entire life - life, for once, seems healed. Everything seems to be back to normal. Trauma hits you again, directly into your 'face', and pain is all you have left.

It's not easy to film this film. It's a painful one but is also true. It's real life.