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Valeria Costas, a writer acclaimed and translated all over the world, has dedicated her life to her books and to her great love, the well-known entrepreneur Martin Aclà. She lives alone in Paris, while Martin lives in London with his wife and children: the two have been lovers for more than twenty-five years, and no one knows about them. When Valeria finds out from the radio that Martin has had a stroke, her world collapses. The idea of losing him is devastating. He must find a way to reach him, be with him, save him, or at least say goodbye. He thus ventures into a clumsy and reckless plan: he commissions his portrait from Martin's wife, the painter Isla Lawndale, and thanks to this lie he manages to creep into their house. In the large and chaotic villa in central London where the man they love lies in a coma, Valeria and Isla find themselves in front of each other, fascinated and intimidated by each other. Does Isla know who the woman sitting in front of her really is? Will Valeria tell her that Martin had just asked her to spend the next few years together? And what did Antonia, Isla and Martin's teenage daughter, understand about her father's double life? Day after day, during the sessions for the portrait, Valeria and Isla study each other and begin to tell each other, creating an ever deeper intimacy, unfolding their fragility and their strength. In another version of the story, perhaps, they would have been friends. In this they may still be in time to help each other. Lies, memories and secrets chase each other and intertwine in a moving and luminous dance of passion and compassion. The portrait is a hymn to life and a song of love, carried forward by two immense and vulnerable characters who, on the threshold of the precipice, collapse and get back up, with pain and grace, while the love of their lives and everything they thought they were is disappearing.
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