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“Sometimes he regrets that if things had to happen - as they did, long ago, exactly as they were meant to - then they did not happen a few years later, when he might have known how to say the right things at the moment they needed to be said.”
After many long years, Nitzan emerges from a relationship and is left with a tight throat and a question that refuses to let go: how do you end a love story that no longer exists? She is convinced the answer awaits her in Paris, in the place where she once promised herself that love was forever - on a bridge over the Seine, among iron, memory, and the river itself.
At that very same time, Philippe, a young Parisian who makes his living selling love locks, discovers that the city has decided to remove the locks from the bridge, erasing his livelihood overnight. In an instant, he is transformed from the keeper of thousands of promises into a man untethered. Something deep within him has broken: not only has his trade disappeared, but so has the only symbol that ever gave order to his world.
Amid lives coming apart at the seams and relationships shaped by both devotion and resentment toward expectations and obligations, Nitzan and Philippe embark on a journey of self-discovery, confronting the past and the present while overcoming the obstacles that stand in their way.
Questions of pain, love, longing, and fate unfold along the line between loss and fulfillment, between reality and dream, and between Ness Ziona and Paris, the City of Light and romance, whose spirit lingers over the entire story, cushioning it with the sound of heels striking cool stone pavements and the aroma of freshly baked pastries.
In rich and evocative prose, Omer Boulanger Cohen weaves together the stories of Philippe and Nitzan, their families and friends, creating a world that is at once strange and familiar, recognizable and surprising, and above all overflowing with love.