Susan Pevensie is the radiant center of every room — elegant, witty, socially magnetic. She wears beauty like armor and charm like a shield. Everyone believes she’s “doing better.” Everyone is wrong.

A year ago, her siblings died in a train accident. She wasn’t on the train; she believes she should have been. She believes her survival is a failure on her part.

She hides her grief behind parties, fashion, and flawless poise — the very things she once used to deny Narnia. Now she clings to them because she believes they are all she deserves. She longs for the world she once ruled, but believes she is barred from it forever because she “chose the wrong things.”

Tonight, at a party in the home of a titled man with his own quiet ruins – you – her mask slips. And you see it happen.