Our Entangled Threads

In early 2020, three students in Amsterdam find their lives quietly being reshaped as the world closes in around them. What begins as an MBA project to create an educational board game for children becomes a test of endurance and a discovery of the fragile ways people react to pressure. In the stillness of isolation, they discover that resilience isn't linear, friendship isn't effortless, and healing rarely arrives in the form they expect.

Chandresh thrives on connections, but the pandemic forces him to face the parts of himself he usually outruns. Kenta believes discipline and kindness will be enough to carry him through graduate school, but when the world closes in, he must put his mental health first. Johan has always been practical and quietly protective of the people he loves, but he sometimes forget that strength isn't the absence of fear. Together, they're re-learning what it means to trust themselves and each other.

Cover design: Jade Foliage