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Los Angeles, 1982.
A city that never really sleeps.
Michael Jackson is on the verge of becoming the biggest star in the world, his life tightening into rehearsals, expectations, and a spotlight that never dims. But away from the cameras, there are moments no one sees. Quiet gaps between who he is and who everyone thinks he should be. Michael moves through it surrounded by attention, but not closeness. Even with fame everywhere around him, what he wants is simple: a real friend. Someone genuine. Someone who sees him as himself.
Maybe a girl, born into fame but quietly allergic to it, more interested in becoming a monk than following in her late father's footsteps, is the kind of unexpected presence who might, without trying to, fulfill the only thing he's ever truly wanted.