Architecturestudents Stories

Dalawang taong ipinagtagpo ng tadhana ngunit magkaibang panahon. Isang sulat mula 2005. Isang sagot mula 2010. Sa ilalim ng lumang desk, nagsimula ang koneksyong hindi kayang ipaliwanag- isang lalaking nasa nakaraan, isang babaeng nasa kasalukuyan. Sa bawat liham, lumalalim ang tanong: Paano kung ang taong nakakaintindi sa'yo... ay nasa ibang panahon? Minsan, hindi mo kailangang makita ang isang tao para maramdaman mo siyang totoo. At minsan, ang pag-ibig ay dumarating sa pinaka-imposibleng pagkakataon-pero eksaktong sa oras na kailangan mo ito.

Altrove is the Italian word for elsewhere: another place, a different life, somewhere beyond what we already know. Iris Sarti knows every crack in her family's house in the hills above Florence. She knows which step creaks, which window refuses to close, and how much it costs to preserve an inheritance everyone seems to have placed in her hands. What she doesn't know is who she might become away from it. When a scholarship allows Iris to move into an international university residence, she meets Eliot Sayer, an American architecture student who has learned to leave every city before it can truly become home. Eliot has been in Florence for less than a day, but he has already written the date of his departure on the wall outside his room: May 31. She is searching for an elsewhere she cannot yet name. He has lived in countless places without ever finding one he could call home. Between shared projects, Florentine nights, and an attraction that becomes harder to ignore, Iris and Eliot will discover that some people enter our lives to stay. Others are given only enough time to change them. But what happens when the person destined to leave becomes the only place you want to remain?