“Once, when I was already old, a man approached me in the lobby of a hotel. He introduced himself and said: “I’ve known you all my life. Everyone says that you were very beautiful in your youth, but I came to say that I find you more beautiful now...” Thus begins the novel “The Lover” (1984), which brought Marguerite Duras the Goncourt Prize and world fame. The real events that formed the basis of the sensational novel, this is an incredible love story that until the end of his life - for 16 long years - connected the already middle-aged Duras with the young student Ian Andrea. The autobiographical work of Ian Andrea “This Love”, based on which the film of the same name was shot with Jeanne Moreau in the role of Duras, introduces reader with the “male version” of the infamous novel.