Where words no longer reach

Elias was once a professor of literature — a man of quiet brilliance and private sorrow. After losing his wife and daughter in a tragic accident, his life collapses into silence and fear. Beaten in a dark alley and left for dead, he awakens in a hospital beside a violent stranger. From that night on, the world becomes something to hide from. Years later, he lives alone in a decaying room, surviving on memory and the fading kindness of a doctor. But when María Elisabeta — a gentle woman from the market — begins to reach him with small gestures and handwritten notes, Elias starts to speak again. To trust. Even to love. Together they flee the city for a quiet village in the Carpathians, where he works as a carpenter, and she becomes his only link to the world. But when a man from her past returns, Elias's fragile peace shatters. One morning, he vanishes — leaving behind only a folded coat, a cracked photograph, and the scent of pine and dust. She also vanished. Her note, found days later, read: "Forgive me for the hunger that brought you to me, and for the betrayal that drove you away. Now it seems too late to tell you that I always loved you." Some say he walked into the river. Others swear they've seen them — hand in hand, wandering through the fog. What they were denied in life, they found at last — where words no longer reach