Sy Baumgartner found and then lost the kind of love you never recover from. He is learning to live alone - and in order to bear it, he interprets reality with memories and episodes from his marriage, from his childhood, from texts written by him and his wife. This mosaic flows sometimes smoothly, sometimes turbulently, and the main character hunts from it reasons why it is worth loving again and taking risks. Paul Auster (1947-2024) wrote his farewell novel with a premonition of impending death and with love for life.