Description:
Late 20s, female, Black. Dark skin, round face, big brown eyes, full lips. Estelle was beautiful, magnetic, passionate and incredibly talented. She also wasn’t real. Though Angela doesn’t know it yet, this “past life” could be more accurately described as a stock character created by The Timeline Project to manufacture results. Despite this, the story story explores the humanity of someone who never existed as Angela feels a deep connection to Estelle. A jazz singer in the 1920s, Estelle’s story is a tragic tale of what happens when the thing you love most goes hand in hand with your greatest source of pain. Trapped in an abusive relationship with the owner of the club where she performs, Estelle struggles to navigate the power dynamics of race, gender and social class as broken systems enable her harm.
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