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The novel recounts three moments in the life of a writer in his early thirties, Leo, grappling with the immense pain of losing his partner, Thomas, a young German musician. Their relationship is recounted through long reflections and continuous flashbacks. Leo is a successful writer, who lives between Milan, Paris, London, and Florence; Thomas, on the other hand, lives in West Berlin. The two lovers often meet across Europe, spend their holidays together, but live in separate rooms, separated by two thousand kilometers. They thus have the opportunity to see each other when they wish, but also to retreat into their own solitude. Until Thomas begins a relationship with a girl. This strange three-way relationship triggers genuine crises of jealousy in Leo, but it soon ends due to Thomas's incurable illness, who, barely twenty-five, dies in a Munich hospital.