This is a story of a man and a woman who both are in love with the same person and the grief of the loss of their love. It is not a love story, but a story about love.
In love, we complete ourselves with someone else, we find the missing part of ourselves, we find where we belong when two become one. Then, how about losing the love we found? We feel a part of ourselves is lost, we are no longer completed and the place where we belong is gone. So, we start the searching again and that was what Thomas did.
He was searching it from someone who was long gone and will never return; so, what he did was traveling back in time, back in space, to live a life as Oren ever lived; by doing so, he can feel close to Oren again, he can grief his lost. He went to the swimming pool where Oren used to go, he ware the swimming short which Oren used to wear, he went to meet Oren's family, he even worked at the cafe together with Oren's wife. Did he find what he was looking for? Yes, he did, but not from shifting into Oren's life; from the moment Oren's mother invited him to the house, to the bedroom where Oren used to sleep, his healing starts by being accepted through the love of Oren's family. Could he tell the truth? How could he? It is love between two men, it is a country with strong religion restrict, it is two nations with too much unbearable history.
He is not the only person missing Oren and in hurt, Sarah too, but she couldn't grief her lost; Oren dies the night when she was told he is leaving her for someone else. That night, she lost him both in marriage and real life. After she hired Thomas at her cafe, she fell in love with the cake Thomas makes, just like how her husband did, also, just like how her husband did, she fell in love with him, too. So then, both of them, Thomas and Sarah, started to live a life as how Oren lived.
When the truth came out, it was the first time we saw both of them cried out loud; The truth is shocking and the tears are the first sign of recovering. They both couldn't hold it anymore, they crushed, in order to stand up again. Thomas's journey was completed, he returned to where he is from; Sarah, in the last scene of the film, we saw her in front of Thomas's cake shop, just like how Thomas was in front of her cafe at the first time.
It is not a love story, but a story about love, how love hurts, but also how love heals us.
In love, we complete ourselves with someone else, we find the missing part of ourselves, we find where we belong when two become one. Then, how about losing the love we found? We feel a part of ourselves is lost, we are no longer completed and the place where we belong is gone. So, we start the searching again and that was what Thomas did.
He was searching it from someone who was long gone and will never return; so, what he did was traveling back in time, back in space, to live a life as Oren ever lived; by doing so, he can feel close to Oren again, he can grief his lost. He went to the swimming pool where Oren used to go, he ware the swimming short which Oren used to wear, he went to meet Oren's family, he even worked at the cafe together with Oren's wife. Did he find what he was looking for? Yes, he did, but not from shifting into Oren's life; from the moment Oren's mother invited him to the house, to the bedroom where Oren used to sleep, his healing starts by being accepted through the love of Oren's family. Could he tell the truth? How could he? It is love between two men, it is a country with strong religion restrict, it is two nations with too much unbearable history.
He is not the only person missing Oren and in hurt, Sarah too, but she couldn't grief her lost; Oren dies the night when she was told he is leaving her for someone else. That night, she lost him both in marriage and real life. After she hired Thomas at her cafe, she fell in love with the cake Thomas makes, just like how her husband did, also, just like how her husband did, she fell in love with him, too. So then, both of them, Thomas and Sarah, started to live a life as how Oren lived.
When the truth came out, it was the first time we saw both of them cried out loud; The truth is shocking and the tears are the first sign of recovering. They both couldn't hold it anymore, they crushed, in order to stand up again. Thomas's journey was completed, he returned to where he is from; Sarah, in the last scene of the film, we saw her in front of Thomas's cake shop, just like how Thomas was in front of her cafe at the first time.
It is not a love story, but a story about love, how love hurts, but also how love heals us.