A few years ago Irene Facoetti let herself be overwhelmed by an intense story and came out of it with a wound that never fully healed. She had lost trust in others and for a couple of springs her heart stayed silent. Then someone arrived, but he was too unpredictable, and she decided to let him go. A sudden thought followed: was she running away only out of fear of suffering again? And another, even more insidious: is a person who gives up a complicated love a coward or courageous? She decided to put the question to anyone, asking each participant to write their answer on a slip of paper she provided. To widen the field of research she booked an eight-day Mediterranean cruise, where she could meet people of different nationalities and cultures, and continued the research after her return until the day she saw him again: he was the last participant in the project.