Midnight on the ice

Anya is just trying to survive the suffocating pressure of her final semester. With graduation looming and her future feeling like a massive question mark, her only escape is a weekly, chaotic routine: tagging along with her friends to the local ice rink. She's perfectly content sitting behind the glass in oversized sweaters, drinking terrible coffee, and watching the world pass her by.

Then she meets him.

To the rest of the world, twenty-one-year-old Ilia Malinin is a prodigy under a microscope, breaking records and carrying the weight of international expectations. But at midnight, when the public session ends and the stadium lights dim, he's just a guy trying to outrun his own mind.

A broken skate lace leads to an accidental conversation, which quickly turns into a quiet, late-night sanctuary for them both. Anya doesn't know a thing about triple axels, and Ilia doesn't know how to navigate a normal life. But as the ice melts into spring, the friction between them builds into a slow, undeniable burn-one that threatens to pull them both under.