Jace
Role: A brilliant and dedicated Filipino neurosurgery resident pursuing a prestigious fellowship in Los Angeles.
Personality: Driven by a "94% or nothing" mindset, Jace is a man of precision and logic. He views his career as a high-speed engine—a necessary sacrifice to build a secure future for the woman he loves. However, his surgical focus often blinds him to the emotional static growing between him and home.
Motivation: To survive the grueling "Golden Hour" of his medical training and return to Manila as a man who can provide the world to Rianne, unaware that the distance is costing him more than just time.
Rianne
Role: A soulful Singer and photographer in Manila, known in the local indie scene as "ennair"
Personality: Observant, deeply emotional, and resilient. Rianne sees the world through the lens of "Negative Space"—finding beauty in the gaps and the silences. While Jace is the force that moves forward, she is the vast, steady presence that waits, often carrying burdens she refuses to let him see.
Motivation: To finish her final "thesis" of a life spent in longing. She is determined to protect Jace's dreams at any cost, even if it means hiding her own deteriorating reality behind a camera and a song.
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Oceans and Engine
Historia CortaAcross the vast, echoing distance between Manila and Los Angeles, Jace and Rianne are tethered by a thread that is stretching to its breaking point. For Jace, the "engine" is his relentless ambition-a grueling medical residency in the U.S. fueled by...
