Lucy and Gabe met during their senior year at Columbia University on September 11, 2001. This fateful day will change their lives forever. Both Lucy and Gabe want to do something significant and important in life. Gabe dreams of becoming a photojournalist, and Lucy dreams of making television programs for children. A year later they meet again and realize that they are madly in love with each other. Perhaps they will find the meaning of life in each other. However, no one wants to sacrifice their career. Gabe goes to the Middle East to make photo reports from hot spots, and Lucy remains in New York. And the next thirteen years are a journey of dreams, desires, jealousy, betrayal and ultimately love. Did fate bring them together only to separate them immediately? Everyone lives their own life, follows their chosen path, but love has settled in their hearts forever. A stunningly romantic debut novel about the lasting power of first love. For the first time in Russian!