Marie, a young artist, lives a creative and intense everyday life with her partner Paul, which poses the challenge of reconciling her work and her role as a mother, especially for her. When their three-year-old son dies in a tragic swimming accident, the couple's life is completely turned upside down. While Marie increasingly isolates herself in her grief, Paul tries to suppress the loss by working tirelessly. In search of a new beginning, they spend a few months in Marie's father's Irish holiday home. But the longed-for peace fails to materialize: feelings of guilt and the constant memory of Christopher weigh heavily on Marie. The arrival of friends exacerbates the conflict: her carefree self-centeredness reminds Marie of a life that has long seemed unattainable for her. Between loss and the desperate search for support, Marie and Paul wrestle with the question of whether and how they can continue to live as a couple. In a hauntingly condensed language, this short and powerful novel tells of grief and pain, the different ways of dealing with it, and of the fragility of a love that reaches its limits due to shared loss. New product