Yara is abruptly awakened by her alarm at 6:20 AM and notices she has several notifications on her phone.
After a hot shower, she prepares her daughters, Mira and Jude, for school, making sure they have their breakfast and packed lunches with notes inside.
On the drive to work, Yara operates automatically and realizes upon arrival that she doesn't remember the drive or dropping her daughters at school.
She reflects on how her days have become a blur and worries about her tendency to forget chunks of time.
Yara arrives at Pinewood College campus, admires its autumn beauty and heads to her office in the Humanities Building where she plans her day, feeling isolated.
Her job is mostly repetitive graphic design work, despite her qualifications and desire to teach art full-time.
She recalls how her request to teach additional art courses has been continually deferred by Jonathan, the director, due to "budget cuts".
Yara remembers past tension with Jonathan, who once criticized her for highlighting non-white artists in her art class.
She follows her daily routine of preparing course materials and feels disconnected from the carefree students outside.
Her journey to the college involved overcoming her conservative upbringing and an arranged marriage that quickly transplanted her to North Carolina.
In college, Yara felt out of place among her more experienced and confident peers while grappling with her own insecurities and immigrant background.
Despite her academic achievements, Yara continues to feel inadequate and limited by her past.
However, she finds solace and freedom in painting quietly at home, a stark contrast to her usual state of mind overwhelmed by self-doubt and life's pressures.
She works on taking photos of various campus activities, feeling momentarily at peace and purposeful, as she did while painting.
Yara captures images that reveal the intimate and mundane aspects of campus life, sharing them on the college's social media.