The Yield Point

How far would you go to save your father—and how much of yourself would you break along the way?

Marcus Santos is an assistant civil engineer with a modest paycheck and a strict moral compass. But when his father, Tasyo—a lifelong mason—suffers a catastrophic injury on a neglected job site, Marcus is forced to make a choice: let his father rot in a public hospital, or accept the patronage of Don Hector, the smooth-talking patriarch behind Metro Manila’s most powerful development consortium.

Stepping into Don Hector’s world of air-conditioned sanctuaries, gold fountain pens, and million-peso kickbacks, Marcus is tasked with quietly rubber-stamping sub-standard structural blueprints. What begins as a temporary compromise quickly corrodes into a web of systemic fraud, stretching from midnight steel shipments in Pasig to a six-billion-peso flyover over Manila Bay.

Trapped between a ruthless criminal network, an aggressive investigative journalist holding his signed sign-offs, and his father’s uncompromising values, Marcus realizes he cannot simply walk away from a machine he helped build.

Using the only weapon he has left—his knowledge of structural mechanics—Marcus embeds a microscopic, mathematical time bomb deep inside the project’s blueprints. But as the clock ticks down to his father’s high-stakes surgery and state auditors move in, Marcus must decide whether he can bring down an empire without crushing everyone he loves beneath the rubble.