This fictionalized memoir is a modern but timeless tale of young love won, lost and, years later, against all odds, found again.
Two young people meet, fall in love and plan to marry. Circumstances intervene to prevent their happiness and to disrupt their contact with each other. They marry other partners, bring up others' children, and live other lives until one day, forty years later, a sequence of events is put in train that is to bring momentous changes to both their worlds. This fictionalized memoir is a fairy tale for our time. It is based on fragments from an authentic archive of correspondence between the two main characters, which is extended and supplemented with their autobiographies and their contemporary commentaries on the unfolding events.