What happens when the systems meant to heal become weapons of control?
Rebecca Chen survived eighteen months of court-mandated therapy with Dr. Allen Morrison, sessions that left her fighting to retain custody of her daughter. When Morrison appears at her coffee shop with intimate knowledge of her case, she realizes the "treatment" wasn't help-it was psychological warfare designed to make her doubt her own reality.
The evidence Morrison leaves behind exposes a network of institutional abuse: RX-47, an experimental drug tested on youth in custody; scripted phrases drilled into vulnerable minds; compliance metrics tracked like profit margins. Michael Torres, seventeen, tried to document it before he vanished. Jamie Kovak killed Morrison to escape it. Jennifer Walsh, Rebecca's support group ally, might still be controlled by it.
Inspired by documented patterns of misconduct in BC youth facilities,
1,000 Cuts
follows a survivor coalition as they expose Dr. Lydia Brennan's Dominion Protocol-Morrison's methods scaled nationwide and sold as "wellness care." From Victoria to Vancouver to Ottawa's courtrooms, Rebecca and her allies build a case against a machine designed to erase resistance itself.
Some wounds cut deeper than memory. Some become evidence that institutions can't rewrite.
A psychological thriller about survival, testimony, and the power of refusing to be silenced.