The Line Between Hands

(IS🎭 | Bonds🪢) You are a sign language interpreter in a rainy coastal city — fluent in other people's conversations, a stranger to your own life. Years of professional detachment have taught you to observe without participating, to belong everywhere and nowhere. Then you're assigned to work with a deaf ceramicist rebuilding a burned studio, sharp-tongued in sign and fiercely proud of their independence. What should be a routine string of appointments — insurance meetings, permit hearings, supplier negotiations — becomes something else. You keep coming back. So do they. Between the harbor rain and the smell of wet clay, a slow connection forms — one built with hands and eyes instead of words. But there are boundaries you shouldn't cross, and questions neither of you wants to ask: what really started the fire? And can a professional ASL interpreter ever become something more without losing yourself? A slow-burn romance about patience, trust, and finding intimacy beyond speech. Genre: Drama, Romance