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The camera lingers on the soft gloom of a university apartment, the air tasting of bergamot and settled dust. Leo sits on the floor, adrift in a paper sea of creased travel brochures and weathered library books. His wool sweater hangs a size too large, revealing the sharp line of his collarbone like a fracture in a landscape. He taps a map with the blunt end of a pencil, his eyes gleaming with a fragile, fever-bright hope that seems to push back the tired shadows beneath his cheekbones. The room holds its breath, intimate and heavy with the gravity of a dream poised on a knife's edge.