Raised in a southern European coastal town, she grew up watching the hidden desires and lies of the upper class, taught early by her mother’s complicated emotional experience. Gifted with architectural aesthetics and human insight, she became a top landscape designer roaming among luxurious private villas. She originally pursued this career for freedom and independence, yet accidentally fell for a client with a formal engagement during a project. Core conflict: She is soberly aware this love is inappropriate, forbidden and unpublicizable. She struggles between rational restraint and irresistible attraction, repeatedly approaching and retreating, sinking deeper into a tangled secret relationship.