Beyond The Diamond

We have all heard the saying that nothing worth having comes easy,
that no pain equals no gain,
but my personal favourite is
the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those quotes are always followed up with stories of people who fight against great odds, and still find a way to somehow rise above them.

However, those tales only skirt our subconscious boundaries.
They never truly touch on the depravity of humans, for most of those tales never venture into the dark.

So what happens when one of those stories steps into the light?

Park Min-joon must navigate the harsh realities of life while shouldering the burden of generational trauma. Driven by a fierce desperation, he fights his way from the forgotten slums of Korea to the packed stadiums in L.A. One lucky moment becomes the opportunity that can drag him out of a life very few people get to escape.

Rose isn't scared of the darkness that clings to him, not because she's afraid but because she understands that survival has a cost and some people are forced to pay it in full.
Can they rise above this impossible challenge to change the world?

This is their story.
I hope you follow along to see if love is something that survives greatness or if it's something that must be sacrificed to achieve it.

Content and/or trigger warnings: This story contains scenes of violence, mentions of SA, substance and child abuse, which may be triggering for some readers.