allienoel96
A recent college graduate accepts a long-term summer job in a private coastal town. The house is immaculate, the expectations are specific, and the owner is away for most of the season.
Crescent Cove operates on absence as much as presence. Homes are occupied and emptied in cycles. Privacy is assumed. Questions are rarely asked.
Days settle into routine. Communication remains contained. What is known is practical. What isn't is left untouched.
While He Was Away takes place over one summer and considers what happens when responsibility, proximity, and time overlap-without intention, without declaration, and without urgency.