In The Pitt season 2, senior resident Samira Mohan (Supriya Ganesh) has her post-residency plans all mapped out, but a single moment threatens to change all of her aspirations.

Mohan told Dr. Cassie McKay (Fiona Dourif) in the premiere of the current season of the medical drama that she accepted a job at a New Jersey hospital in order to remain close to her mother. However, that plan is beginning to unravel. In The Pitt season 2, she learns that her mother is getting married to someone she had known for less than a year, selling her home, and preparing to spend a year traveling the world on a cruise.

In an interview with TVLine, Ganesh explained how her character always had a master plan for both her career and personal life. She had always planned on moving back to New Jersey and just assumed that everything would fall into place. However, now that her initial plans were derailed, she finds herself feeling a little bit lost and not knowing what to do next.

The actor even went as far as to say that Mohan feels like she has no sense of purpose. Her world has always revolved around her mother, and now that she is seemingly no longer needed, she feels like the life she has built is falling apart. Her character is someone who is usually so methodical that losing control of a future that she has spent so long crafting could be very frightening to her. And, having no backup plan just makes the entire scenario even worse for her.

It’s like she’s planned her career and her life around this move back to Jersey. I think in a later episode, she says, like, ‘Well, I thought I’d go back to Jersey then work on finding a relationship. And then I’d figure out when to have kids.’ That’s why [Samira] hasn’t really put down roots [in Pittsburgh]. And so when that falls apart for her, I think it’s incredibly destabilizing. And she feels like she just has no sense of direction or purpose, even, in a lot of ways.

According to Ganesh, as The Pitt season 2 continues, Mohan is forced to realize how much of her identity was shaped by the obligation to take care of her mother after she lost her dad. And, now that her mom has moved on, she is finally seeing how little time she made for anything other than work.

Her laser-sharp focus on her career has come at the expense of personal relationships outside of her family, leaving her with a limited sense of who she is. However, the actor is hopeful that her character will rise above all the challenges she’s about to face and become a stronger person.

She’s so hyper-focused on her job that she doesn’t even really know, outside of that, what relationships she has or what friendships she has. And so I really think that, hopefully, by the end of this day, she is grappling with that in some way.

The Pitt releases new episodes every Thursday at 9:00 PM ET and 6:00 PM PT on HBO Max.