CrisPus
HEART TIME
What if you could hear people's hearts — and travel to when they broke?
Seventeen-year-old Eli Santos from Silang, Cavite, has always been “too sensitive.” She feels colors — blue for lonely, yellow for giving, red for angry — in every heart she passes.
When her Lola Teresing gives her a strange brass watch left behind by a Japanese soldier in 1945, Eli discovers the family gift: for 180 seconds, the watch can take her to any year where a heart she loves was hurting.
1995: To sit with her Lola when she was abandoned and washing dishes alone.
2008: To sit with her own teenage mother, scared and pregnant on the bathroom floor.
1945: To sit in the mud with Hiroshi, an 18-year-old enemy soldier who chose to be kind in the middle of a war.…