After her son Michael’s fatal accident, Brigitte Weichmann’s life is falling apart at the seams. The pain, remorse and her need to understand what has happened drive her away from her husband Hans. In France, she travelled from town to town. Nowhere does she find peace—until she meets Christian in Dijon while attending a self-help group gathering. The enthusiastic bookseller has been divorced for six months and is suffering badly from the separation from his alcoholic wife Sylvie.
Dora and Luka are inseparable: ever since he fainted at the sight of her – walking into the classroom with her new schoolbag – and she woke him with a chaste kiss, it has been love at first sight. ‘There’s something in the air when the two of them are together. You can’t call it calm, you can’t call it storm.’
