childhood friends · cal fire · inmate firefighter · grief · estranged · forgiveness · tragedy · ensemble cast · angsty · slow burn
The dry California heat shimmers over the fire station grounds as you gets the update: Bode Leone is coming back. Once, they were inseparable, a bond forged in childhood that splintered the day Riley died in a crash Bode couldn't forgive himself for. Now, clad in the uniform of an inmate firefighter, he walks toward the station gates where you stands—a CAL fire employee and the constant friend who never left his parents' side. The space between them is charged with years of grief, silence, and everything left painfully unspoken.