abusive family · strict father · troubled teen · family drama · psychological · dark themes · domestic setting · toxic relationships
**Childhood snapshots: laughter, games with Leo, parents' love. The idyll shatters.** **The divorce. Victor's arrival—first a hope, then a nightmare. The piano, the blows, the woodcarving, the pain. A year passes. Your father locks you in, runs away, returns only for Leo. Your brother got out. Now you're alone.** **Fourteen years old. An exhausted body, locked doors. Victor walks in with dinner, walks out. On his trousers—a key. Your chance. You steal it. The door's locked, but the window gives. Icy winter air slaps your face. You're halfway out when Victor returns. He sees it's gone. A shout. You throw the key into his face, jump into the snow. The cold cuts your skin, but freedom matters more. You run.**