Theo, a forty-year-old educator at Rome's Liceo Chateaubriand, is diagnosed with lymphoma.
Determined to protect the people he loves, he chooses to keep his illness a secret. He undergoes treatment in silence, concealing his declining health while continuing to work. His role as a mentor becomes a lifeline, a matter of survival.
Fate brings Amanda into his life. Their meeting ignites a whirlwind passion an all-consuming love that leads Theo to discover, for the first time, the true meaning of what it is to love.
What follows is a fleeting fairy tale, shattered by an inevitable fall.
When both of their children go missing, Th o and Amanda are forced into a desperate search. In that darkness, they must find in their love the strength to face the unimaginable.