The Hopeless Empty City

At eighteen, you could pour two hundred percent of your strength into loving someone and still feel it wasn't enough. After thirty, giving fifty percent already feels like a luxury. As people grow older, their capacity for love shrinks, and with it comes more and more fear. They learn to tread carefully in matters of the heart, wavering back and forth in love, constantly guessing and testing, weighing every step before taking it, afraid that one careless move will leave everything beyond repair.

In a hospital, a tense, hectic place filled with patients suffering from illness, doctors' sacrifices and dedication have to come first. Their personal lives and feelings seem insignificant, their time compressed and their energy divided... They are, in truth, very lonely.

The city is so vast and empty. Sometimes, you find yourself craving the brief warmth of an embrace. Life seems peaceful and secure, yet deep inside there is always a desolate plain, lashed by a bitter north wind, with no one in sight.

Who can keep whom company? Who can warm whom? Who gives whom something to hope for, and who crushes whose hopes on the streets of this empty city?