Secret Time Keeper

Ella Sterling, 29, is a product operations lead at Pulse Tech, a Chicago social e-commerce firm. Haunted by lifelong regret over her father’s death, she fills every minute with endless meetings and overtime, escaping her guilt through relentless busyness. When mysterious new specialist Zill joins the company, his uncanny ability to strip away redundant time quietly reshapes the firm’s exhausting, overworked culture. Ella is the only employee who actively seeks to uncover his secret. Chance pantry encounters and brief hallway conversations draw them closer within the folds of time. Zill sees through her busy facade to her deep-seated obsession, perceiving the soft light-blue quality of her time; Ella glimpses the gentle warmth beneath his detached demeanor. A wanderer through time’s cracks who never lingers, Zill finds himself pausing for her. This quiet, poignant bond of mutual understanding pushes Ella to confront her long-buried grief and reconcile with her past. Two souls adrift in time, they find in each other’s eyes the answer to living at peace with time itself.