Despite achieving a long-held dream, they find themself doubtful and despondent in a post-pandemic world that feels violent and unstable. Amidst this turmoil, and a looming deadline for their next book, the writer tries and fails to create. Instead, they begin to experience strange hallucinatory visions. Enigmatic letters and sketches appear, written in handwriting that isn’t their own, followed by sightings of a mysterious figure, which blur the line between the narrator’s fiction and lived reality. These challenges-psychological, artistic, spiritual-and the secrets the writer harbors, alienate them from their loved ones, their art, and themself. Despite forays into learning a heritage language, Tagalog, traveling abroad, and changing their look, the visions persist-until one fateful event, which draws the writer and the mysterious figure together.

