The Safety of Us

In the depths of the 2020 winter lockdown, Dr. Elena Rosetti returns to her high-rise apartment numb from a thirty-six-hour shift in the ICU, desperate for silence. Instead, she finds chaos next door: NFL star Jax Carter, immobilized by surgery, panicking over a fostering mishap involving a laboring Golden Retriever. What begins as a medical intervention for seven puppies evolves into a fragile quarantine bubble, where a doctor afraid to feel and a quarterback afraid to fail find salvation in each other—until a fever threatens to destroy the sanctuary they've built.