A lonely woman struggling with past trauma finds solace in an unwavering love - only to discover the man she adores and the friends she relies on exist only in her mind. As reality unravels, she must confront her fractured identity and learn to love herself before she loses everything, including her own sense of self. A story about learning to love yourself before finding love and acceptance in the wrong places.

SYNOPSIS:

Elizabeth has always felt like an outsider - adrift in a world that never quite made sense. Struggling with loneliness and the scars of a painful past, she finally finds love in Josh, a kind and understanding man who sees her in a way no one else ever has. With him, she feels safe. Whole. But when cracks begin to form in their relationship, and people around her start questioning Josh’s existence, Elizabeth is forced to confront a devastating truth - Josh isn’t real.

As Elizabeth spirals, her trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Johnstone, and social worker, Sarah, guide her toward an earth-shattering realization: she has dissociative identity disorder. The people she has depended on - Josh, Betty, Lizzy, and Elle - are not separate individuals, but fragments of her own mind, created to protect her from past wounds. Barbara and Matt, the harshest voices in her head, reflect her deepest insecurities, reminding her of the love and acceptance she never believed she deserved.

Devastated, Elizabeth wrestles with the idea that her greatest love and strongest friendships were merely manifestations of her subconscious. But as she sifts through memories - revisiting moments where she once saw Josh by her side, only to now see herself alone - she realises that the love she’s been searching for has always been within her.

In a powerful journey of self-acceptance, Elizabeth learns to embrace all parts of herself, not as separate beings but as pieces of the woman she is meant to become. As she lets go of Josh with one final goodbye, she steps into the world not as someone seeking love, but as someone who finally understands that she is worthy of it.

And for the first time, she learns to love herself first.

IN THE HOUSE THAT ELLE BUILT