English Summary/英文概要： “For a brief instant I felt in my body, although not yet in my mind, that between the past and the present there was a continuity that surpassed every fractured connection in my life, and this continuity was water.”

Two days after meeting via a dating app, J. and the protagonist of this novel meet on the platform of a London train station. They know little about each other, but they have exchanged photos of their bookshelves at home, letting their literary tastes speak for themselves. The attraction between them is immediate, the intimacy of their bodies comes quickly, well before the intimacy of their minds.

J. is from Canada and has a partner with whom she is in a nonmonogamous relationship. She is running away from a memory that is difficult for her even to discuss. The narrator grew up in a small town in the Veneto region of Italy, but has lived in various European cities since she was eighteen, her sense of euphoria of living in new places alternating with a sense of uprootedness. Together they find the courage to dive into the unprotected waters of desire and pain, wild swimming through their memories until each finds the words with which to tell her own story.