Sophia Fiss and Alex Wentworth are two of MIT's brightest stars.
She is a talented pianist in the music department. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. She comes from an artistic family. The souls of Rachmaninoff and Chopin flow under her fingertips. He is a quantitative trading wizard from the Department of Economics. He has dark hair and comes from a business empire. He made his first million with his own model at the age of twenty.
They met, fell in love, and stayed together for four years.
For four years, they thought they were the same kind of person - the same stubborn, the same strong, the same cruel to themselves without leaving any room. They thought this similarity would make their relationship unbreakable.
But graduation is a watershed moment.
He stayed in Boston and founded his own financial technology company. He worked sixteen hours a day, his cell phone was always ringing, and his attention was cut into countless fragments, spreading to investors, customers, teams, servers—everyone except her.
She got her acceptance letter from Juilliard School and is about to go to New York. Her life was compressed into two points and one line between the piano room and the stage. From six o'clock in the morning to the early hours of the morning, her fingers were calloused on the keys, and the only thing in her mind was the third movement of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto - the third movement that she could never practice enough and required her to devote all her soul.
They are still in the same time zone, still in the same country, and still on the same east coast. The flight time from Boston to New York is one and a half hours, so the distance is not that far.
But their schedules never line up.
Their attention is always in different places.
Concept: Love is when two people become better versions of themselves