Burn Through

Cole cleans offices in the building where Grace Ashford is CEO. They don't know each other, not really. He's anonymous online, posting videos about inequality from his cramped flat. She writes speeches about transparency in corner offices that smell like lemon cleaner.

Their lives touch briefly-first in a bar, then in a hallway, then in a story that neither of them can quite control.

Cole is angry. Grace is tired. He's trying not to drown in a system that keeps pushing him under. She's trying to stay afloat in a version of success that feels more like performance. Both of them understand what it means to disappear in plain sight.

Set in a quietly suffocating London, this is a story about class, silence, small choices that build into consequences, and the strange connection between people who shouldn't really know each other at all-but do.