There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over you on a long-haul flight when you are carrying something that isn’t entirely yours.

As I write this, I am somewhere over the continent, on my way to Poland, and in the overhead bin — metaphorically, at least — is a Filipino story called “Never the Bride.” It is not mine alone to carry. It belongs to a team, to a creative bet, and, if we do our jobs right over the next several months, to audiences who have never set foot in the Philippines.

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