A Time Called You

In the riverbanks of precolonial Selurong, two powerful families prepare for an alliance that will shape the north and south shores. Dayang Kalangitan, daughter of a former Raja and sister to the current one, is promised to wed Raja Makisig of the northern barangay. To her kin, it is duty, protection, and power sealed in gold and vows.

But Dayang's heart belongs elsewhere. Since girlhood she has watched from afar a magpapanday by the riverside, the man who shapes boats with hands calloused and sure. A romance of glances and unspoken names, impossible in the eyes of her status. She is a romanticist in a world that trades love for alliance, and she has never been given the choice to speak it aloud.

On the night before the wedding feast, with the Pasig silent and heavy, Dayang is left alone with a thought too dark to name.

Centuries later, Nicandra Consuela, 19, lives a life far from comfort. She survives on late shifts and thin sleep. One night on the river esplanade, a hold-up turns violent, and she is pushed into the water.

She wakes where the air smells of nipa and woodsmoke.

Now trapped in the body of Dayang Kalangitan, Heaven must navigate a world of hiya, arranged vows, and a marriage already set in motion. Raja Makisig stands before her, a man of strength and duty. And the life she was never meant to live begins to bleed into the one she cannot escape.