The Silent War

In the early 1980s, a crisis spreads through hospital wards and city streets alike, unnamed at first, then feared, then ignored by those who can afford to look away.

Ava is a doctor who refuses to.

Working long shifts in an understaffed hospital, she bears witness to a growing tide of illness and loss as patients are abandoned by families, dismissed by institutions, and left to fight alone. Ava stays. Even when it costs her sleep, safety, and the fragile peace of her own life.

Sara is not part of that world at first. Drawn in by chance and circumstance, she slowly becomes part of Ava’s orbit—offering quiet support, sharp humor, and a steady presence when the weight becomes too much to carry alone.

As fear tightens its grip on the city, Ava and Sara build something fragile and fierce in the margins of grief: a love shaped by endurance, compassion, and the simple act of showing up. Together, they navigate strained families, political indifference, activist firestorms, and the relentless toll of a disease no one is prepared to face.

A quiet love story set against one of the loudest silences in modern history.