The Architecture of Love

People say that Paris is the city of love, but in some ways, New York deserves the title more. It's impossible not to fall in love with the city as it's almost impossible not to fall in love in the city. Raia, a bestselling writer, chose to flee to New York, crashing at her best friend Erin's apartment, to chase inspirations after years of not being able to write even a single sentence. Raia turned every corner of the city into her "office", walking through the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn, to Queens, trying to find a story in each person that she encountered, each smile that she saw, each conversation that she overheard, in the eyes of strangers on the street and in the subway. Days, weeks, and months had passed, the fallen leaves of autumn have now been replaced by snowflakes, and all Raia had was a blank screen and misery. One night led her to an encounter with a shy guy who loves to draw buildings, River, an architect from Jakarta who turns out also had fled to New York to escape a haunting, painful past. The encounter starts a secret friendship between the two, with a time bomb that is ready to explode: River and Raia each has a secret tragedy that had changed them into lonely souls. Only time will tell whether they will heal each other or wound each other even more.