Season 1
13 episodes
20 min. per episode
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Haunted by her past, Kayla journeys through heartbreak and deception, seeking redemption and a place to belong.
Episodes
After a 27 month stay in Niger (for the Peace Corp), Kayla heads home to Texas. She says goodbye to her African friends and then boards the plane. The quiet hum of the airplane cabin sends Kayla into a slumber. She dreams of haunting images from the past and a foreshadowing of the future. She wakes to a city she no longer knows but remains hopeful for her only plan, Rachel. Episode 1.00 is a one-issue comic book presented as a MOTION COMIC, INTERACTIVE WEB COMIC and a DIGITAL COMIC and is a prequel to the Once You Leave series.
Kayla returns home, after two years, to a defective situation. Her alcoholic mother, the root of this dysfunction only complicates matters. And most of Kayla's high school/college friends are nowhere to be found. But luckily Kayla has a plan, even if there is a small hitch...
Kayla's plans are altered when she discovers that her best friend, Rachel has moved to Salado for work. So Kayla hits the road (in her mom's car) to set things right and hopefully repair their fragile relationship. Upon reaching Salado she meets Rachel's employers, John and Mary Anderson. Unfortunately they have some bad news and everything changes...
Kayla wakes in Rachel's room, in Rachel's bed. She stares deeply at a picture of Rachel but Rachel is... Hopeless and alone Kayla contemplates her next move. All seems lost... but then comes Awenasa, a Native American Indian drifter. They disappear into the woods together. Intoxicated by the dancing flame and Awenasa's psychotropics, Kayla begins her transformation.
Where do you go when the road has run out? Without a destination, Kayla's journey begins. The peace of the road encourages reflection. However the constant painful reminders of a once hopeful reunion with Rachel now haunt Kayla's every thought. What was Rachel trying to say in her last bits of communication? Will Rachel's little brother, Jon-Michael have the answers?
Lost and alone, Kayla must contemplate her next move. Where do you go when the road has run out? How did she get here? She retraces her steps, haunted by shadows of her past and confronted by demons in her present. On the road she must face the reality of lost, unrequited love, the dark hearts of men and dream-shattering disappointment. Will Kayla find the strength to go on, to find herself, to find her home? They say you can never go home again, Once You Leave.