Destino Pasional is a 2023 Filipino-Argentine romance drama directed by Juan Romero in which Mahalia, a 38-year-old Filipino dance critic whose career was cut short by a leg injury, meets Norberto, a 55-year-old Argentine biologist, on a flight to Argentina — and when an emergency landing strands them both for a few unexpected days, Mahalia discovers that Norberto is terminally ill. In the time they have, the two fall into a deep and passionate love affair that neither of them planned, knowing it can only last for those few stolen days before their separate lives pull them apart forever.