A writer wakes up in a hotel room in an unfamiliar city. His clothes are
muddy; he doesn't know how long he's been lying in bed. Yonatan came to
participate in a literary festival that is long over--why is he still
here? When he attempts to reconstruct his lost days, Yonatan learns that
he told people at the festival that his best friend had died. The
trouble is... his friend is very much alive. Yonatan stays on in Mexico
City, reluctant to return to his wife and son back home in Tel Aviv.
Convinced his closest friend, Yoel, is going to die, he struggles to
preserve his sanity. But why is he so convinced? Does the answer lie in
their childhood in Jerusalem, when it was them against the world? Nir
Baram's compassionate and personal novel is about an extraordinary
friendship between two boys who become men haunted by a shared past. It
is also a universal story of family and love, and of the power of memory
and imagination.