Last time, he chose his TV stand over the woman he loved. Now he’s on the Aegean coast with the one thing he still trusts. The days run into each other. The pool, the afternoon heat, a quiet house where nothing happens. He likes it that way. Then he meets someone. Falling for her takes about as long as a paper plane needs to cross a beach. This time he gets to choose again. Dear Maria, part two. Shot on 16mm by Finn Christian Peper.

In search of tranquility, he leaves behind the life he once knew. Far from the city, he enters a world where time seems to stand still. A place to reflect on the past, reinvent the future, and become someone else. But transformation is rarely a solitary act. In the pursuit of a new life, he finds a connection in another. What begins as an unexpected encounter grows into a desire to hold on, to belong, to believe in something beyond himself. Perhaps we are drawn to people and objects for the same reason: the need to give meaning to something, to make it our own. Some things become objects of desire. Others, the desire itself. But desire is rarely shared in equal measure. Sometimes, in leaving the past behind, we find that it has followed us all along. In the end, he is left with what he came searching for, though perhaps not in the way he imagined.