He believed love didn’t exist. 

She believed love came with an expirate date. 

A linguist from Argentina and a physicist from Silicon Valley  moved to Munich on the same day in 1986 and began an unlikely romance with an agreement: careers first, commitment last. When he had to leave Germany, she wanted to stay. A friend who had lost everything suggested a third way: put on a backpack, go somewhere neutral and find your path there.

During a yearlong journey from Cairo to Cape Town on twenty dollars a day, they moved throug pre-digital Africa where everything had a spirit, and all that they’d believed began to unravel.

Some agreements aren’t meant to survive Africa.