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“The dreams we chase and the ones we inherit — a story told in thirteen songs.”
The Story
Two generations.
One unfinished love.
Nashville, Tennessee. Two timelines, twenty years apart — running on the same current.
In the present, seventeen-year-old Savannah Cole is starting senior year with her heart guarded, her mother’s marriage quietly collapsing in the background, and a boy named Mason Rivers who just transferred from a small town. Something sparks. She fights it. Then she stops fighting.
In the past, we watch her mother June — at the same crossroads, in love with a musician who chose the crowd over the family. The story Savannah never knew. The weight she’s been carrying without understanding why.
Thirteen songs. Thirteen chapters. Released one week at a time — because some stories need to breathe.
How the story is told
Savannah and Mason. Tyler she’s leaving behind. Caleb who loves Lily at all the wrong times. Senior year at Nashville High. The showcase. The fight. The silence. The stage. They’re chasing something they can feel but can’t quite name — and Nashville is deciding whether to let them have it.
June Cole fell in love with a man who put music first and family second. We watch it happen in real time — the bright beginning, the slow erosion, the moment she packs a borrowed bag. The audience sees it all. Savannah doesn’t. Not yet. The moment they finally share the same room is the center of the entire show.
The Cast
Eight Characters.
One Interconnected Story.
Seventeen. Songwriter. Guarded by everything she’s watched at home. When Mason Rivers arrives, she spends three weeks convincing herself not to fall. She falls anyway. Songs 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Transferred from a small town with a guitar and a music program offer out of state. He and Savannah co-write their way into each other. The offer doesn’t disappear. Songs 4, 5.
Charming, three beers in on a Friday, unreliable in ways that take eight months to fully see. The red light on his dash. The cheap cologne. Savannah ends it in a parking lot. Song 3.
Sees everything clearly except the thing happening between him and Lily. Five years of almost. His chapter is the one that breaks your heart sideways. Songs 12, 13.
Loved him at every wrong time. Shows up in a Nashville bar with someone else’s hand in hers. Her final line rewrites the whole show. Song 13.
Wrote songs in a notebook she never showed anyone. Loved a musician who chose fame. Signs the papers alone in a diner booth while her daughter falls in love upstairs. Songs 2, 8, 9, 10.
Heard his voice on the radio while his family waited at home. Found sobriety ten years too late and wrote a letter nobody expected. Referenced in songs 2 and 9.
All characters, all timelines, one front porch. Four versions of the same house. The scene where everything finally shares the same air. Song 11.
Releasing Weekly
Thirteen Chapters.
Thirteen Songs.
A new chapter drops every week. Each one paired with its song. Read the story, then listen.