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Avelino recites a poem about "the ash that still remembers the fire" at a crowded sari-sari store turned speakeasy. Luz is in the corner, her fingers tracing silent scales on a worn tablecloth. She is there to escape her engagement to a wealthy landowner.

For a year, he rides in her black Cadillac. She introduces him to power brokers. She laughs at his jokes, touches his arm too long. One night, after champagne and a speech he wrote that swayed a vote, she kisses him. "You are not just a poet, Avelino. You are a weapon. Let me be your sheath." Avelino recites a poem about "the ash that

Luz smiles. She resumes knitting.

"I joined a convent school," she says. "Not to be a nun. To learn silence. Because you taught me that words are not enough." For a year, he rides in her black Cadillac

He breaks down. He tells her everything — his ambition, his poverty, Cita’s advances. "I never loved her. I loved the idea of becoming someone worthy of you." One night, after champagne and a speech he

Avelino finds Luz lighting a candle. He has not seen her in eighteen months. She is thinner, her hands still beautiful, but she no longer plays piano.

"I miss feeling invincible. But I love feeling real. That’s you."