Life and death.
Inseparably united.
Insurmountably separated.
Curse and blessing at the same time.
Bound together for all eternity.
They had both seen millennia and yet only ever had eyes for each other. Since the beginning of time they have walked the earth, giving life and death in equal measure. They do it not consciously, by no ability, no thought, no action, but by their mere being.
Whoever wants to create life so that death can rob it, must also live and die himself, over and over again. That is the rule, the one insurmountable law. It is an eternal cycle that can never be broken.
God’s plan, Mother Nature, evolution – the name means nothing, because the result was always the same and will always be the same.
With each death they lose the memory of their life and pass through the veil of ignorance. Only in dreams do fragments of their past sometimes haunt them – some beautiful, some tragic, some bloody.
With each life they reincarnate in a form adapted to the present time. First only as ethereal creatures, then as micro-organisms, as animals and now… with the development of humanity they also became human beings.
The unfathomable, indestructible attraction between them binds them and always leads them into each other’s arms with merciless certainty. But fortune had never been kind to them.
The greatest poets, thinkers, philosophers and artists of every century were inspired by their love. They are the models of the most tragic and greatest love stories. Caesar and Cleopatra, Paris and Helen, Romeo and Juliet were just some of the names they called.
Today, in the 21st century, they are facing each other again. They are as far from each other as ever, shaped by their new lives and different estates. And yet, once again, they feel the unfathomable, indestructible attraction.
She, the personification of flourishing life.
He, the personification of merciless death.
Only the very last and at the same time most important question remains:
Should they once again give themselves over to their passionate love and hope that this time fate will be merciful?