The Self-Toxic Altruist

In 2025, Juliana Blum, a senior at OHS—an elite American school in

Rio de Janeiro—falls for her English teacher, Paul Lawrence. The feeling

takes hold right after his divorce and ignites after an intense erotic dream.

Determined to have him at any cost, Julie enlists the help of her best

friends and begins a discreet plan to seduce him—without letting him realize

she’s doing it on purpose. But the odds are stacked against them: Paul is her

father’s closest friend, school rules strictly forbid any relationship between

teachers and students, and he carries a dangerously self-sacrificing sense of

responsibility—especially when it comes to protecting the future of the

people he cares about.

Still, Julie refuses to give up. She believes that if she can make Paul

fall in love with her, he will be willing to risk everything for her. What

neither of them knows is that something far more mysterious than attraction

exists between them—a phenomenon that interferes with their feelings, their

choices, and even the reality they both know.

As Julie’s plan unfolds and the tension between them intensifies, she

and Paul find themselves facing an impossible choice: surrender to the desire

consuming them... or risk losing everything—including themselves—trying

to resist.