A year has passed since Can left Sanem and his country.
The end of a love story is a difficult time. Separation is always a very painful experience.
Sanem has had a really bad year. After separation from Can, the young woman fell into depression: the days passed, but the loss of him has left a big hole in her heart. Sanem couldn’t forget him, she felt alone and forgotten. When she suffered, she shut herselfe away and refused contact with anyone else. However, this doesn’t help!
What’s left when a story ends? We remain and it is the most important thing. And from this, despite the heartache, we can always start and be reborn. Sanem repeated these words in her head every day, but she believed that overcoming the end of a love story wasn’t possible. Despite this, she thought it was the time to turn the page: a new chapter in her life begins.

One year later

Spring has already arrived. It is a clear morning, with the sun already shining high in the sky; the air, slightly moved, smells of wood. The trees, hedges and flowers of the small gardens in the streets shine in a spring green. The days are longer, the birds can be heard chirping over the branches of flowering trees. Already the swallows have arrived and the birds have made their nests. The streets of the village are full of people early in the morning. Mothers who have children take them for walks and groups of friends go to school together. People go to the shops more often, there are people who sit on the benches to enjoy the sun reading the newspaper outdoors. Old ladies meet at the bar to have breakfast and gossip a little. The streets are cleaner, you can see trees that bloom like cherry, peach and many more. In the streets you can see many beautiful colorful flowers in the vases, while in the squares people go for walks and buy ice cream.
Today is an important day for Sanem. The alarm clock blows her up. All she does is think of her Albatross. She still feels the scent of his skin and feels the thrill of his touch. She realizes that she is already almost late, she has to move or she’ll make one of her usual bad gaffe. Outside the house mainly in stone, peace and noise reign in the background of that sweet voice. A girl of rare beauty, with a simple and a little childish face, with refined features, which highlights her eyes, brown like the wet dirt after a rain. A cascade of shiny chestnut-colored hair frames her face in a captivating way, but those perfect and rosy lips rarely curl up into a smile. She is so unconsciously beautiful! Her passion has always been writing since she was a child, she spent whole days writing, but nobody had ever been able to read what she wrote before now. At last! After many sacrifices Sanem is there, sitting on a bench with a book in her hands, in front of people who look at her curiously, with wide eyes, waiting anxiously for the end of that presentation. After which the war would break out into a show of hands, ready to ask her a thousand questions. The young woman continues reading without stopping her novel, entitles “The Phoenix and the Albatross”: the most beautiful love story ever told. A story in which she will fight to find his beloved albatross. The cover is so enchanting; the albatross and the phoenix fly in all their beauty in the moonlight, which lightens the blue of the night. The success it has found is unstoppable, translated into many languages, it made Sanem a different person.
In the meantime, a person who perhaps she isn’t waiting for is returning to the city. He comes from afar with his yacht. The sea sparkles in the rays of the sun, creating bright and blue sparkles, while waves of different sizes and shades of blue crash on the boat, some are strong enough to wet him.
A sound accompanies the waves, while the shrieks of the seagulls jerkily break the atmosphere. The wind whistles in his ears and it moves his long ruffle hair of an indefinite colour between orange and brown, that is on his shoulders. The face is covered with uncultivated beard, also brown, which makes her features more perfect. The eyes are not so large, but deep, like those of a person whose past is unknown, who have much to tell.
Can looks around and thinks that soon he would arrive at the place where his beloved lives. Many thoughts turn in his head, like the fear that she won’t want to know anything about him anymore.
Inside him, anxiety and agitation consume him.
The boat reaches the harbour, crashing into the jetty. Two men are already waiting for him: ropes are passed to him to tie the boat. The ladder goes down and he jumps down. It’s not easy for a sea dog to return to dry land. He seems lost, but maybe it’s just an appearance. He immediately meets a man, an old friend he met at the harbour. The two greet each other from afar and Can takes the opportunity to advise him against embarking, given the time that is about to arrive.
Meanwhile everything seemed to be going well at Sanem’s presentation, but the complications begin. The voice starts to fade; it’s difficult for her to go on, she is overwhelmed by the memories and wonderful moments spent with him.

A year ago

I remember our first date…a whole night in Paris! Two drops of perfume on my neck and I finish putting on make-up, a veil of blusher. I was wearing a white evening dress. I move around making my thoughts wander, I mechanically turn off the lights, close the door.
I go out into the street, the summer air attacks me. July full. Humid. Sultry.
I smile, while my heart is in trouble.
Only the sound of heels sounded, tac tac tac in the dark.
How will he be dressed? What perfume will he wear?
I am very attentive to details. Yet a little bit I should know him. I am confused, these emotions…
And how will he see me?
It doesn't take long to arrive, we set in a restaurant near home.
I’m a little embarrassed, but I want to see him, to know him again.
Yes, I have to go in.
I open the door of the restaurant. Inside the smoke, the lights, the voices, the heat. Then, the noises go silent, and I see him.
His face blends into the dark, but his smile is unmistakable.
He is sitting at the table with two friends, but when he sees me he immediately gets up and kisses me lightly on the cheeks.
“Do we sit at a table?”
Let's talk about everything. Everything that comes to mind. Everything you need to know us, with the feeling of knowing us by heart in the background.
Suddenly, he looks at me.
"You're beautiful tonight." he whispers. He is embarrassed. I'm happy, he never said anything like that to me.
We spend the whole night together, the most beautiful night of my life.

Tears fill her eyes. It was just a dream. Sanem looks around to see if it was true, if Can was there with her. Suddenly a cough brings her back to reality. She strengthens and tries to continue reading, but it’s impossible. When he looks up, he doesn't believe his eyes, he closes the book with a sudden movement, putting a hand on her chest. Can appears behind the audience; Sanem feels short of breath. She is very shaken, soon she realizes that it is all the result of her imagination and to forget what happened she invites people to ask her questions, since her presentation is over.