Chapter One: Different Worlds

Leaving behind a home is hard. Leaving behind the people who felt like home is even harder.

After moving from Germany to America, she's forced to start over in a place where friendships are louder, quicker, and somehow emptier. Back in Germany, connections were deep, loyal, and built to last. In America, everything feels temporary-like she's always on the outside looking in.

Told through bittersweet memories and quiet heartbreaks, Foreign Faces, Familiar Goodbyes explores the pain of losing childhood friendships, the confusion of forming new ones, and the reality that some people aren't meant to stay-no matter how much you want them to.

Some friendships fade with distance. Others fall apart up close.

This is the story of both.