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Habiba Muktar and Badr El-Idrissi are a brilliant architectural "power duo" with one shared specialty: driving each other absolutely insane.

Habiba builds walls with an architect's discipline. Badr lives to tear hers down, insisting her fiery presence is essential for the office ecosystem to function.

Their carefully managed rivalry-one neither of them would ever dare call friendship-shatters when Habiba's family attempts to force her into a disastrous marriage. One look at her fear was all it took for Badr to make a reckless, unforgettable choice.

He marries her first. Suddenly, two rivals who never planned beyond their next argument are husband and wife.

Thrown into a marriage built on panic, loyalty, and badly timed heroism, they must navigate the fallout of what they've done.

As their lives intertwine, the distance they relied on begins to feel far less secure.

And if rivalry was the only thing keeping them from crossing lines they were never meant to test, what happens when even that is gone?