THE PAUSE

Jennie Kim, 29, is a woman shaped by perfection and purpose. She dreams of becoming a cardiothoracic surgeon, not for reputation, but to save the kind of life she once almost lost, her own. Disciplined, brilliant, and intimidating without trying, Jennie moves through the world with the quiet strength of someone who rebuilt herself from a childhood tragedy.

Lisa Manoban, 28, once promised her lost twin that they would become neurosurgeons together. But now, pursuing that dream feels heavier every year. Her parents push her to continue,
even when the path feels lonely without the other half who should've walked it with her. So Lisa escapes, through parties, alcohol, and girls, trying to fill a silence only she can hear.

Bound by family legacy, tangled by a long history, and connected by a thread neither wants to name, Jennie and Lisa move through medical school like two heartbeats sharing the same rhythm, one steady and controlled, the other chaotic and breaking. Yet in the end, scalpels don't bind them. Fate does.