As a girl grows up, her world starts to become more complicated. She notices lines appearing on people’s faces that she hadn’t noticed before. While trying to see the hidden lives in between her neighbors’ facial features, her own face struggles to ignore an unwanted line from her childhood.

Faces become emotional landscapes in this tender reflection on childhood and perception. As lines deepen—on others and on the protagonist—this evocative short animation uncovers how we carry hidden stories in plain sight, and how the etchings of memory quietly shape the way we see.