Season Two · The Mother
You can love someone and still hurt them. The question is what you do next.
“It’s okay. I’ll show you. We’ll do it together.”
Nila, thirty-sevenSeason Two
Nila becomes a mother. She promised herself she'd never be like him. Then she hears his words in her own voice.
Twenty years later. A pancake, a daughter, and a voice she recognises.
React. Teach. Encourage. It's harder than it sounds.
A blue bicycle, a park, and a mother who stays.
She goes home to talk to her father about the past.
A pan catches fire. For one second, everything could repeat.
How it plays
Every episode has small everyday things you actually do — and they go wrong in very human ways.
The family
Thirty-seven, tired, loving. And sometimes, without meaning to, she sounds exactly like him.
Seven. Curious, stubborn, easily frustrated. She asks "why" about four hundred times a day.
Seventy now. His hands shake. For the first time, he's willing to talk about the past.
Two generations
The same activities return in Season Two. What changes is who stays beside the child.
Get up.
Are you okay? Let's try again.
Where it began
Go back to the red bicycle, the kitchen, the driveway at midnight — and the father who didn't know how to teach.
Go to Season One →About
Standing Beside You is a two-season interactive drama about a daughter raised by a father who loved her but never learned how to teach her — and who, years later, hears his words come out of her own mouth.
There are no villains here and nothing supernatural. Just a family, a red bicycle, and the slow work of doing it differently.
Content note: depicts a parent's anger and harsh words toward a child, and a small kitchen fire. No violence. Progress and choices are saved only in your browser.