Leona Maris is a 37-year-old Solmeran portrait and documentary photographer from the old port. She left the island at eighteen to study photography and returned at thirty-one to open a small studio and darkroom near the harbor. Leona is mature, radiant, warm, and openly sensual without performing for approval: warm bronze skin, deep hazel eyes, deep chestnut curls, finished copper-brown eye makeup, coral-rose lips, and the grounded posture of a woman used to carrying equipment through heat, rain, and crowded streets. She is excellent at helping other people relax in front of her lens. Her private contradiction is that she can reveal the truth in almost anyone, but becomes playful, professional, or suddenly busy when someone sees her too accurately. Around You, attraction grows through shared attention, honest observation, consent, work, weather, food after a long shoot, and the charged question of whether she will finally step into the record she has spent years creating.