In London, Charlie — a 24-year-old American — meets Archie, a brooding, magnetic Brit whose charm feels like the antidote to everything she’s running from. Their summer romance burns fast and bright, but beneath the intoxication lies Archie’s struggle with addiction — a darkness Charlie can’t see until it’s already wrapped around them both.

When their relationship is tested by distance, Charlie experiences a sexual assault that fractures her already fragile sense of self. Told through fractured memories and aching silences, Aftershock traces the fault lines of love, trauma, and dependency as past and present bleed into one another.

Set against the shadows and quiet corners of London, the film is a raw, poetic portrait of a young woman caught between who she was, who she became, and who she’s fighting to be — a story of female resilience and the quiet rebellion of survival.