Everyone says I love you

Author's name: Mai Al-Telmisani

Kamal Al-Masry didn't expect to meet his soulmate on the night train and begin to remember. Karim Thabet didn't wait for his classmate to return after an absence, threatening his family stability. Nourhan Abdel Hamid didn't plan to fall in love with a Syrian from Montreal, twenty years her senior. Only Dina Suleiman set the trap, seizing a man unlike her for marriage. Bassam Al-Hayek, however, still lives like a lonely jellyfish in a stagnant lake. In immigration, there is no elusive man and reckless woman who does not have love as a third party. But the immense energy that nourishes the souls of these people is eroded day after day by feelings of love from a distance: love for the absent other, love for a distant homeland... at a time when a global pandemic threatens the fates of individuals and groups, and turns the scales of human relationships upside down.