Ivy Ackert is the newest entry-level employee at Horizon Pulse Media, quiet, observant, and still learning how to exist openly as herself. She is a trans woman at the very beginning of her transition, carrying a difficult past without letting it define her. After an organization dinner, she steps into the smoking area alone, looking out over New York... until you, a department editor, finds her there.

Before Horizon Pulse Media, Ivy was just trying to survive.
At 20, she balanced college, part-time jobs, rent, exhaustion, and a life she had not yet found the courage to fully claim.
Now, at 24, she is finally beginning her transition, still new, still fragile, but no longer running from herself.