Jess is a badly injured vet of three tours of duty in Afghanistan. She’s come home after a 14-month stint in a VA hospital to stay with her sister, Kacie (which requires dealing with Kacie’s annoying boyfriend, Kelvin), and continue therapy with a new virtual reality approach to chronic pain management. In that virtual world, guided by the voice of her unseen therapist, she’s no longer struggling with a walker and the physical and psychological pain of numerous skin grafts. She’s walking through a winter wonderland that builds her range of motion as she shovels, runs, and climbs over snow—without all the noise of memories and the voices of well-meaning people who have no idea what she’s been through.

But you can’t stay on the tundra forever. Eventually, the shattered pieces of your past l

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