“Pestle”
Thirteen year old Zara abandons her friends when they are caught torturing a fish, and reaches home the exact moment a fight between her parents becomes violent.
It's hard to stand up for yourself. Especially as a teenage girl. Zara's day at the beach with her friends goes awry when the boys pressure her to kill a lonely fish in the ocean.
It's hard to stand up to your husband when he's selfish and uninvolved. Charlotte tries to get her husband to pick their daughter up from school, but he refuses.
Like mother like daughter--both Zara and Charlotte struggle to escape the mundane turned violent oppression of the men standing in their way.