Cruising altitude

Zuri Osei lives her life at 35,000 feet. For a decade, she traded anniversaries for red-eyes and birthdays for layovers in Dubai. To Zuri, the hum of the jet engine was more comforting than the silence of her suburban home. That silence eventually became deafening, leading her husband, David, to hand her divorce papers between her London and Tokyo shifts.

Now, standing in her empty apartment with nothing but a rolling suitcase and a finalized decree, Zuri is ready to hang up her wings. She's burnt out, lonely, and convinced that the sky has taken everything from her.

The story culminates in a choice. Zuri has spent years choosing her career over love, and then her grief over her career. Emiliano represents a third path: a life wh
ere work and heart don't have to be mutually exclusive.