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WHILE I WAS AWAY Limited Series | Romantic Drama • Mystery • Period Love Story Set in England at the turn of the millennium (1999–2007), While I Was Away is a haunting romantic drama about love that lives in silence, distance, and time. The series follows William Leonard Harrison III—“Leo”—a quiet, grief-shaped heir to a historic vineyard estate who has learned to survive by keeping his heart guarded. When Leo meets Angelique “Angel” Rousseau, a brilliant and enigmatic Oxford student, their connection unfolds slowly and tenderly—through shared work, long walks, letters, and moments of fragile joy. But Angel has a habit of disappearing without explanation, leaving Leo suspended between devotion and doubt. Each absence reopens the wound left by his parents’ deaths and deepens his fear that love is something destined to leave. As their relationship stretches across seasons and separations, Leo begins to search not just for Angel, but for the truth behind her vanishing—and for a way to love without fear of loss. When the reason for Angel’s absences is finally revealed, Leo is forced to confront the hardest truth of all: that love is not measured by how long it lasts, but by what we give while we are able.