My Partner

There’s a bit of rivalry between the indigenous young men of Hawai’i and those of Philipino heritage whom they think cavalier about the natural resources of their pristine islands. That hostility extends into school where “Pili” (Kaipo Dudoit) and his older lads like to pick on “Edmar” (Jayson Munoz…

This was the typical enemies-to-lovers trope, but set against a Hawaiian backdrop with half of the cast being from the Philippines. The good, the story flowed smoothly and the romance developed casually over the course of the story and it flowed through to the end when everything finally came toget…