- follows 3 time periods and places: 1600s (1800s***) Germany, 1940s NYC, and 1970s Florida and the characters in that time period with connection to the letters.
- "How a set of lost love letters between a legendary 19th century German composer and his doomed muse end up in the hands of a lovestruck teenage boy in 1970's Florida
- 1600's/1800's
- (Beethoven type): child prodigy and royal composer, music is incredibly popular and legendary. He has many marriage prospects but his true love is married courtesan and muse Josephine, and his most famous composition is dedicated to her.
- (Josephine): high soceity rich girl in unhappy marriage who falls in love with (B) and they want to run away together but realize they cannot, so they trade emotional and beautiful love letters between each other. (She is from England or something so the letters are in English)
- (J) dies suddenly from an illness and (B) kills himself shortly afterwards and going through his estate, his mentee (x) accidently pockets the letters when he takes some of (B)'s unfinished music to his home. He discovers the letters later and attempts to return the letters to a library, but is forced to leave the country (idk why) before he can do so. (not sure exactly how this turn of events will go)
- He goes to England, where he assumes a new identity and can't return the letters so he'll incriminate himself. He gives them to a street child to send to a library but the kid discards them in a trash can and takes the money anyway. The letters pass through several hands:
- a kicked out drunk rummaging through the trash uses the words to get back into his wifes good graces
- a sailor comes across them in an alley and takes them with him to show to his love in America, she is with another, so he angrily leaves them in a tavern
- a teenage girl finds them in the tavern that her family owns and she falls in love with the words. She daydreams about the author and goes to the mans house to try to find out who wrote them, but on the way her things are stolen by a robber, who goes through the belongings and leaves the stuff (including the letters, which he does not read) in front of the library (coincident)
- where a clerk there files them away, thinking they are someones. They stay in the lost and found for years, where the woman decides to trash them but cannot because their beauty reminds them of her own lost love. She preserves them in the records room of the library, where they stay until found by Y. Every person who sees it can't bear to throw them away, so they remain there.
- 1940s
- (Y), an ambitious, young investigative reporter with a limp and a passion for knowledge and love for the written word, he writes for the Entertainment section of the Times but wants to do the front page. While rummaging around the library looking for geneological records for a story he has to work on, he discovers the preserved letters. He reads them and they prompt him to start working on a secret project about them, like who wrote them, how they got here, etc. His editor isn't intrested (um; theres a war going on, y'know?) so (Y) takes it upon himself and use them (similarly to several other characters) for his own advantages. (They helped (B) afterall!)
- His lost love, (Z/Susannah?) was a secretary at his first newspaper, in Louisana, and he is inspired by a re-read of the letters to go and find her and confess his love. He travels to her lka, which is in Florida and discovers she is married, but her husband is off fighting in WW2 and she tells him that she had feelings for him too at one time, but she's moved on with her life now.
- Defeated, he rents a cabin in the woods and decides to write his novel, when she finds the letters in his breifcase that he left at her house (after he left in a fit of rage after her rejection). She thinks he wrote the letters and cannot believe his feelings of love and realizes she feels the same way. She professes her love back to him, and wants to divorce her husband and marry (Y).
- When she goes to get her things from her house, she recieves a letter revealing that her husband was injured and will be coming home, and figures out she is pregnant. She decides to sacrifice her true love and stay with her husband, a heartbroken (Y) begs her to stay but she quotes the letters: something about giving up what you want for what you have to do (like how J couldn't be with B). She dies in childbirth, and (Y) attempts suicide, like B did, (again not sure if this should end like this or not)
- Either way, a heartbroken (Y) abadons the cabin, but much like the sailor from the first part, leaves the letters there (in the preserved breifcase) for another person to find.
- 1970s
- Charlie, a 15-17 year old kid hopelessley in love with rock music and his neighbor (Wendy). He lives in a trailer park with his mom and spends the summer riding his bike around the swamps near the park looking for alligators and writing song ideas for his band. He was raised by his mom to believe that love isn't real, but after meeting Wendy he thinks it does. He finds the letters in (Y)'s cabin and goes to return them (he's a good kid), discovering he still lives nearby
- (Y), now an old man, tells Charlie the story of the letters and the parallels between he and B's lives, and asks him if there is anyone he loves like (B) and (J) and he and (Z) loved each other. He tells Charlie to use the letters to say what he himself cannot
- Charlie finds Wendy and confesses his feelings, using the letters. She rejects him, even after seeing how beautiful the words are and he returns home dejected. But a second look at the letters and research on the couples (B and J/ his conversation with Y) give him a new and outside perspective.
- (Something else with this, but IDK what!) Either way (she rejects him anyway/loves the words but finds out they aren't his/he realizes he only loves the idea of her/etc) the letters show him that true love is real and show him the meaning of love, so he leaves the letters somewhere else for someone else to find.
jul 7 2015 ∞
jul 8 2015 +