My Winter Journey

My best friend Anna asked me if I would mind taking her fifteenyearold son Itvan to Berlin with me I accepted immediately An elegant refined man in his forties sets off with Itvan on a long enjoyable journey his Winter Journey They cross snowbound Germany by car As the man drives the boy through cities and countryside Itvan discovers the past and the vast job of reunification now underway Poetry and culture are also part of the journey which is accompanied by classical German music When their paths cross with the mans former lovers or the journey provides unexpected encounters Itvan also gets to know more about the mans own life When they finally arrive in Berlin their ways must part Itvan watches the man leave taking the melancholy of his existence with him However their journey together has created an unbreakable tie between the two men Itvan will never be the same again