A missing father burst into the life of his daughter in a somewhat supernatural .. This is the beginning of the conversation they ever had, and a journey that takes them from New York to Berlin via Montreal - in search of the man whose heroine was madly in love when she was twenty years ... Julia is a young woman who lived her childhood in solitude, her mother died when she was a little girl and her father, Anthony Walsh, a successful businessman, but too often absent at according to his daughter who judge him as a distant father. Julia decides to go to study at the Beaux Arts in Paris following a meeting in a student bar she finds herself with friends in Berlin for the long-awaited historic event: the fall of the Berlin Wall. She attends flabbergasted reunion of separated families for over twenty years and she met her first love, Tomas has lived in Germany from the East with his grandmother during this period of cold war. Tomas finds his childhood friend, who Knapp was able to leave East Germany before the wall's construction. Tomas does not dream of only one thing, becoming a journalist. Julia does not go to Paris but lives the perfect love with Tomas until his father comes to search for and forcibly returns to New York, it is not major, it must follow to regret his father. Julia follows by far the Tomas career that is sent to Afghanistan and there is the horror, the car in which were Tomas and his colleagues hit a mine, the bodies are shredded and Tomas died Julia not for the presence of his father, who has become inaccessible for her and will live his life by launching headlong into his graphic designer job to forget, forget Tomas, forget his death. Twenty years have passed, Julia married in a few days. Then she gets a phone call from the private secretary of his father who told him that his father did not attend her wedding. And yet, without making it a formal invitation, she had sent him a simple cardboard to inform. Again his father escapes his role but Julia recognizes that it has an impeccable excuse, he just died suddenly in Paris and his body will be repatriated to the funeral taking place on Saturday in the afternoon. The sad news is not particularly moved by Julia who cancels his wedding ceremony to attend the funeral of the father she has only vague memories. The day after the funeral, she receives a huge crate and discovered inside his father as real as nature except that it is wax. Inside is also a remote control, object with which it has the opportunity to resume the dialogue with the father who has so much to say and to be forgiven. But time is running out and a reunion every minute that passes must be used wisely ........ And if it were true? And if destiny was not written in advance? And if happiness was not an absurd idea? Many SI but in this comedy, full of suspense, tenderness and humor in which Marc Levy takes us to the heart of the relationship between a father and his daughter, and tells the story of first love, the one who never dies. a fantastic story in which paranormal, love and destiny become one.
