Trigger warnings: Abusive relationships, implicit content but nothing overly sexual due to rules & guidelines, noted in chapter title, depression, death, and infertility. It relies heavily on the Death Stranding Universe and some details are left out and dependent on the knowledge from that universe. However, anything relating directly to the story is at least summarized. Hideo Kojima, obviously, tells it better. There are recap videos on YouTube or a wonderful wikia page for Death Stranding that is helpful.
Each chapter is titled with a song that I listened to while writing Strands of Colors but doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the chapter itself.
Enjoy! :)