While April is being pressured and threatened, those outside her family — like Bob Hope, Marlon Dingle, and Rhona Goskirk — still believe she is just going through a teenage crisis, needing a shoulder to lean on.

They talk about the upcoming Christmas, promising warmth, reunion — while April is facing a real nightmare.

No one knows that Celia and Ray have begun to take action to separate April from everyone.

When any danger can loom right behind her, trust — the bridge — suddenly becomes fragile.

April dares not share everything with anyone, afraid that any word can be used as evidence against her.

Feelings of helplessness, loneliness, fear — weigh heavily on April’s heart every night. Her family still tries to help, but in the end, they are protecting a girl whose pain they do not fully understand — the fear she is hiding deep.