Darrian Amaker spent four days in hospital with her eyes swollen shut after surviving an alleged brutal ten-hour beating by her boyfriend.

From her hospital bed, she recorded a haunting song about a woman who leaves her abuser, explaining “it felt important and a small triumph to make something, salvage anything, from my shipwrecked heart”.

This week, she posted the video to the US National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Facebook page, prompting many people to share their own stories of survival.

She wrote:

Watch the moving video here:

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